How Many People Are Named Regis?
people named Regis are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 127,531 people in the US has this name
Based on 5,536 babies named Regis in Social Security records from 1897 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
107 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From a surname meaning "ruler" in Occitan. This name is often given in honour of Saint Jean-François Régis, a 17th-century French Jesuit priest.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Regis, 5.7% were girls and 94.3% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1910s: 9.2% of the babies were girls then and 0% in the 2010s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Regis alive today is about 54 years old, and 47% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 36 and 73 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Regis first appears in the records in 1897 and was given most often in 1917, to 107 babies. In 2025, 8 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1897 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Regis has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #601, in 1917. In 2025 it ranked #9,505.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #9,505 |
| Best rank | #601 (1917) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #711 in the 1940s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Regis alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Regis were born in Pennsylvania than in any other state: about 1,057 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Regis was given about 13.1 times as often in Pennsylvania.
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