Reginald is a masculine
given name
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in the
English language
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.
Etymology and history
The meaning of Reginald is “King".
[ ] The name is derived from the
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...
''Reginaldus'', which has been influenced by the Latin word ''regina'', meaning "
queen
Queen or QUEEN may refer to:
Monarchy
* Queen regnant, a female monarch of a Kingdom
** List of queens regnant
* Queen consort, the wife of a reigning king
* Queen dowager, the widow of a king
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". This Latin name is a
Latinisation of a
Germanic language
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name. This Germanic name is composed of two elements: the first ''ragin'', meaning "advice", "counsel",
"decision";
the second element is ''wald'', meaning "rule",
"ruler".
The
Old German
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There is no standardised or supra-regional form of German at this period, and Old High ...
form of the name is ''Raginald'';
Old French
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forms are ''Reinald'' and ''Reynaud''.
Forms of this Germanic name were first brought to the British Isles by Scandinavians, in the form of the Old Norse ''Rögnvaldr''. This name was later reinforced by the arrival of the Normans in the 11th century, in the
Norman
Norman or Normans may refer to:
Ethnic and cultural identity
* The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries
** People or things connected with the Norm ...
forms ''Reinald'' and ''Reynaud''.
[ which cited: for the surname "Reynold".]
The Latin ''Reginaldus'' was used as a Latin form of cognate names, such as the Old Norse ''Rögnvaldr'', and the Gaelic ''Ragnall'' and ''Raghnall''.
Translations
* Afrikaans: Ryno
* Ancient Germanic: Raginald, Reinald, Reinhold
* Ancient Scandinavian: Ragnvaldr
* Arabic: ريجنالد (Ryǧināld)
* Belarusian: Рэджынальд (Redžynaĺd)
* Bulgarian: Реджиналд (Redzhinald)
* Catalan: Renald
* Chinese: 雷金纳德 (Léijīnnàdé) (雷金納德)
* Danish: Ragnvald
* Dutch: Reinoud, Reinout
* Finnish: Reino
* Filipino: Regino
* French: Réginald, Renaud, Renoir, Renouard, Reynaud
* German: Reinhold
* Gujarati: રેજિનાલ્ડ (Rējinālḍa)
* Hebrew: רג'ינלד (Rejinald)
* Hindi: रेगीनाल्ड (Rēgīnālḍa)
* Icelandic: Rögnvaldur
* Irish: Raghnall
* Italian: Rinaldo
* Japanese: レジナルド (Rejinarudo)
* Kannada: ರೆಜಿನಾಲ್ಡ್ (Rejinālḍ)
* Korean: 레지날드 (Rejinaldeu)
* Latin: Reginaldus
* Macedonian: Реџиналд (Redžinald)
* Middle Irish: Ragnall
* Mongolian: Режиналд (Ryejinald)
* Norwegian: Ragnvald
* Old French: Reinald, Reynaud
* Old German: Raginald
* Old Irish: Ragnall
* Old Norse: Rögnvaldr
* Persian: رجینالد
* Polish: Reginald
* Portuguese: Reginaldo, Reinaldo, Reynaldo, Ronaldo
* Punjabi: ਰੇਜਿਨਾਲਡ (Rējinālaḍa)
* Russian: Рогволод (Rogvolod)
* Scottish Gaelic: Raghnall
* Serbian: Региналд (Reginald)
* Spanish: Reinaldo, Reynaldo
* Swedish: Ragnvald
* Tamil: ரெஜினால்டு (Rejiṉālṭu)
* Telugu: రెజినాల్డ్ (Rejinālḍ)
* Thai: เรจินัล (Recinạl)
* Ukrainian: Реджинальд (Redzhynalʹd)
* Welsh: Rheinallt
* Yiddish: רעגינאַלד (Reginald)
Use and popularity
Today ''Reginald'' is regarded as a very formal name, and bearers generally shorten their name to ''Reg'' in ordinary usage. ''
Reggie'' is a pet form of ''Reg''.
People named Reginald
Middle Ages
:''Ordered chronologically''
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Reginald I, Count of Burgundy
Reginald I was the second count of the Free County of Burgundy. Born in 986, he was the son of Otto-William, the first count, and Ermentrude de Roucy.
In 1016, Reginald married Alice of Normandy. He succeeded to the county on his father's death ...
(986–1057), second Count of the Free County of Burgundy
*
Reginald I, Count of Bar
Reginald I (also called "the One-eyed", Reinald I, Renaud I; – 10 March 1149) was Count of Bar (1105–1149). Barrois, during the Middle Ages, was the territory of the counts and dukes of Bar, in the eastern part of present-day France, bo ...
, Count of Bar (1105–1149)
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(c. 1110–1175), also High Sheriff of Devon
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Raynald of Châtillon
Raynald of Châtillon (french: Renaud; 11254 July 1187), also known as Reynald or Reginald, was a Crusader knight of French origin but also Prince of Antioch from 1153 to 1160 or 1161, and Lord of Oultrejordain from 1175 until his death. He w ...
(c. 1125–1187), also known as Reginald of Châtillon, a knight in the Second Crusade and Prince of Antioch
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Reginald of Sidon
Reginald Grenier (1130s – 1202; also Reynald or Renaud) was Count of Sidon and an important noble in the late-12th century Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Rise to fame
Reginald was the son of Gerard of Sidon and Agnes of Bures, and a grandson of Eu ...
(1130s–1202), Count of Sidon and an important noble in the Kingdom of Jerusalem
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Reginald of Canterbury
Reginald of Canterbury (died after 1109) was a medieval French writer and Benedictine monk who lived and wrote in England in the very early part of the 12th century. He was the author of a number of Latin poems, including an epic entitled ''Malchu ...
, medieval French writer around 1200
*
Reginald (bishop of the Isles)
Reginald (died c.1226) was an early thirteenth-century Bishop of the Isles. According to the ''Chronicle of Mann'', he was related to the Crovan dynasty, the royal family of the Kingdom of the Isles. The chronicle specifically states that he was t ...
(died c. 1226)
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Reginald de Braose
Reginald de Braose (19 September 1182 – June 1228) was one of the sons of William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber and Matilda, also known as Maud de St. Valery and Lady de la Haie. Her other children included William and Giles.
The de Braoses ...
(1182–1228), Norman nobleman
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Reginald of Piperno
Reginald of Piperno (or Reginald of Priverno) was an Italian Dominican, theologian and companion of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Biography
Reginald was born at Piperno about 1230. Since 1927 this town of the Lazio region in central Italy is Priverno. H ...
(c. 1230–c. 1290), Italian Dominican, theologian and companion of St. Thomas Aquinas
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Reginald of Bar (bishop of Metz)
Reginald of Bar (Renaud de Bar, d. 1316) was bishop of Metz from 1302.
Reginald was the son of Theobald II, Count of Bar, and his wife Joan of Toucy. He was made canon at Rheims, Laon, Verdun and Cambrai and then, before 1298, archdeacon of Br ...
(died 1316)
*
Reginald of Burgundy
Reginald of Burgundy (died 1321) was Count of Montbéliard, ''jure uxoris'', from 1282 to 1321. He was a son of Hugh III, Count of Burgundy, Hugh of Chalon (from the Anscarids, House of Ivrée), sire of Salins, and his wife Adelaide, Countess Pala ...
(died 1321), Count of Montbéliard from 1282 to 1321
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Reginald II, Duke of Guelders
Reginald II of Guelders ( nl, Reinoud), called "the Black" (c. 1295 – 12 October 1343), was Count of Guelders, and from 1339 onwards Duke of Guelders, and Zutphen, in the Low Countries, from 1326 to 1343. He was the son of Reginald I of Guelders ...
(c. 1295–1343)
Modern world
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Reginald Arvizu
Reginald Quincy Arvizu (born November 2, 1969), also known as "Fieldy", is an American musician, best known as the bassist for nu metal band Korn. He is also the guitarist/bassist for rock band StillWell.
Musical career
Prior to Arvizu's t ...
(born 1969), American rock musician
*
Reginald Askew
Reginald James Albert Askew (16 May 1928 – 9 April 2012) was a British Anglican priest and academic. He was Principal of Salisbury and Wells Theological College from 1973 to 1987, and Dean of King's College London
King's College Lon ...
(1928–2012), British Anglican priest and academic
*
Reginald Bonham, English blind chess player
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Reginald Bosanquet
Reginald Tindal Kennedy Bosanquet (9 August 1932 – 27 May 1984) was a British journalist and broadcaster who was an anchor of '' News at Ten'' for ITN from 1967 to 1979.Eddie Dyj"Bosanquet, Reginald (1932–1984)" BFI screenonline
Early ...
(1932–1984), British television newsreader best known for presenting
News At Ten
*
Reginald Denny (actor), English stage, film, and television actor
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Reginald Oliver Denny
Reginald Oliver Denny (born 1953) is a former construction truck driver who was pulled from his truck and severely beaten during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. His attackers, a group of Black men who came to be known as the "L.A. Four", targeted De ...
, the truck driver nearly beaten to death during the Los Angeles riots in 1992
*
Elton John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight), English singer
*
Reginald Dyer
Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer, CB (9 October 1864 – 23 July 1927) was an officer of the Bengal Army and later the newly constituted British Indian Army. His military career began serving briefly in the regular British Army before tra ...
(1864-1927), British-Indian army officer, mostly remembered for ordering the
Jallianwala Bagh massacre
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April 1919. A large peaceful crowd had gathered at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, Punjab, to protest against the Rowlatt Act and arrest of pro-independenc ...
in 1919.
*
Reginald Earnshaw
Reginald Hamilton Earnshaw (5 February 1927 – 6 July 1941), known as Reggie Earnshaw, is believed to have been the youngest person in the British services to die in World War II. He was just old when he died under enemy fire on the off the ...
(1927–1941), believed to be the youngest person in the British services to have died in the Second World War
*
Reginald Fessenden
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (October 6, 1866 – July 22, 1932) was a Canadian-born inventor, who did a majority of his work in the United States and also claimed U.S. citizenship through his American-born father. During his life he received hundre ...
(1866–1932), inventor who conducted pioneering experiments in radio
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Reggie Fils-Aimé
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(born 1961), American businessman and former president/COO of Nintendo of America
*
Reg Fleming
Reginald Stephen "Reggie, The Ruffian" Fleming (April 21, 1936 – July 11, 2009) was a professional hockey player in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins, New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers ...
(1936–2009), National Hockey League player
*
Rex Harrison (1908–1990), English actor
*
Reginald D. Hunter, American comedian, living and working in Britain
*
Reggie Jackson (born 1946), former Major League Baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
* Reginald Kray (1933–2000), one of the
Kray twins, English criminals
*
Reg Keys
Reginald Thomas Keys (born 1952) is the father of a British serviceman killed in the Iraq War. He stood in the 2005 general election as an anti-war independent candidate for in Sedgefield, a constituency held by the then Prime Minister, Tony Bl ...
, British anti-war campaigner and parliamentary candidate
*
Reginald Lee (1870-1913), lookout stationed in the crow's nest of the
RMS Titanic
RMS ''Titanic'' was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United ...
when the ship collided with an iceberg
*
Reggie Miller
Reginald Wayne Miller (born August 24, 1965) is an American former professional basketball player who List of NBA players who have spent their entire career with one franchise, played his entire 18-year National Basketball Association (NBA) ca ...
(born 1965), former National Basketball Association player, member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
*
Reginald Mitchell (1885-1937), British
aeronautical engineer
Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft. It has two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. Avionics engineering is sim ...
, designer of the
Supermarine Spitfire
* Reginald Noble, best known as
Redman
*
Reginald Owen
John Reginald Owen (5 August 1887 – 5 November 1972) was a British actor. He was known for his many roles in British and American films and television programs.
Career
The son of Joseph and Frances Owen, Reginald Owen studied at Sir Herbert ...
(1887-1972), British character actor
*
Reginald Perera (1915-1977), Sri Lankan Sinhala Trotskyist
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Reginald Pole
Reginald Pole (12 March 1500 – 17 November 1558) was an English cardinal of the Catholic Church and the last Catholic archbishop of Canterbury, holding the office from 1556 to 1558, during the Counter-Reformation.
Early life
Pole was bor ...
(1500–1558), English Archbishop of Canterbury and cardinal
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Reginald Sydney Vernon Poulier (1894-1976), Sri Lankan
Burgher
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** Burgess (title), a resident of a burgh in northern Britain
** Grand Bu ...
civil servant
*
Reginald Prentice (1923–2001), British politician
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Reginald Punnett
Reginald Crundall Punnett FRS (; 20 June 1875 – 3 January 1967) was a British geneticist who co-founded, with William Bateson, the ''Journal of Genetics'' in 1910. Punnett is probably best remembered today as the creator of the Punnett ...
(1875–1967), British geneticist
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Reg Saunders (1920–1990), Australian army officer
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Reginald Tennekoon, Sri Lankan Sinhala
MP for Minipe
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Reg Varney
Reginald Alfred Varney (11 July 1916 – 16 November 2008) was an English actor, entertainer and comedian. He is best remembered for having played the lead role of bus driver Stan Butler in the LWT sitcom ''On the Buses'' (1969–73) and its th ...
(1916–2008), English actor, entertainer and comedian
*
Reginald VelJohnson
Reginald VelJohnson (born Reginald VelJohnson; August 16, 1952) is an American actor. He is best known for playing police officer characters, such as Carl Winslow on the sitcom ''Family Matters,'' which ran from 1989 to 1998, and LAPD Sergeant ...
(born 1952), American actor
*
Reggie White
Reginald Howard White (December 19, 1961 – December 26, 2004) was an American professional football player who played defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) for 15 seasons during the 1980s and 1990s. He played college football for ...
(1961–2004), American football player, member of both the College and Pro Football Halls of Fame
*
Reginald Mengi, who was a Tanzanian Billionaire, and chairman of IPP companies
*
Reginald (wrestler)
Sidney Iking Bateman (born March 13, 1993) is an American professional wrestler and former acrobat. Better known by the ring name Reggie, he is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the NXT brand under the ring name Scrypts.
Bateman sig ...
, professional wrestler and former acrobat
*
Reggy Roach 2000-Present Rapper and singer signed to Roach Records under Capitol
Fictional characters
* Reginald, in
Saki
Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and cultu ...
short stories
* Reginald, nemesis and cousin of
Richie Rich in the movie and comic books
*
Reginald Barclay
Reginald Endicott Barclay III is a fictional engineer from the ''Star Trek'' media franchise. On television and in film, he has been portrayed by Dwight Schultz since the character's introduction in the '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' th ...
, a recurring character in the ''
Star Trek'' fictional universe
* Reginald Bunthorne, the main character of the
Gilbert and Sullivan opera ''
Patience
(or forbearance) is the ability to endure difficult circumstances. Patience may involve perseverance in the face of delay; tolerance of provocation without responding in disrespect/anger; or forbearance when under strain, especially when face ...
''
*
Bushroot This article includes a list of characters from the Disney series ''Darkwing Duck''.
Main characters
* Drake Mallard / Darkwing Duck (voiced by Jim Cummings, Chris Diamantopoulos in the 2017 ''DuckTales'' reboot) is an average citizen by day and ...
, Reginald Bushroot, supervillain in the Disney television series ''
Darkwing Duck
''Darkwing Duck'' is an American animated superhero comedy television series produced by Disney Television Animation (formerly Walt Disney Television Animation) that first ran from 1991 to 1992 on both the syndicated programming block ''The Disn ...
''
* Reginald Deadman, police constable in the British television sitcom ''
Goodnight Sweetheart''
*
Reggie Mantle
Reginald "Reggie" Mantle is a fictional teenager in stories published by Archie Comics; he is introduced by writer-artist Bob Montana and John L. Goldwater in ''Jackpot Comics'' #5 (cover-dated Spring 1942). He also appears in CW's '' Riverdale' ...
, in Archie Comics
* Reginald Perrin, the main character of a series of novels by David Nobbs, and ''
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
''The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin'' is a British sitcom starring Leonard Rossiter in the title role. It is based on a series of novels written by David Nobbs and produced from 1976 to 1979. Nobbs adapted the screenplay for the first series ...
'', the popular BBC-commissioned 1970s comedy based upon it
*
Reginald Jeeves
Jeeves (born Reginald Jeeves, nicknamed Reggie) is a fictional character in a series of comedic short stories and novels by English author P. G. Wodehouse. Jeeves is the highly competent valet of a wealthy and idle young Londoner named Bertie W ...
, the personal servant to Bertie Wooster in a series of short stories and novels by P. G. Wodehouse
* Reginald "Reg" Hollis, a long-standing fictional police constable in the British television series ''
The Bill
''The Bill'' is a British police procedural television series, first broadcast on ITV from 16 August 1983 until 31 August 2010. The programme originated from a one-off drama, '' Woodentop'', broadcast in August 1983.
The programme focused o ...
''
* Reginald "Bubbles" Cousins, in the American television series ''
The Wire
''The Wire'' is an American crime drama television series created and primarily written by author and former police reporter David Simon. The series was broadcast by the cable network HBO in the United States. ''The Wire'' premiered on June 2 ...
''
* Reginald, a fictional koala bear in ''
American Dad!'', voiced by Erik Durbin
* Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford, the protagonist in a series of mysteries by
Ruth Rendell
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, (; 17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015) was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.
Rendell is best known for creating Chief Inspector Wexford.The Oxford Companion ...
* General Reginald Peter Skarr, in ''
Evil Con Carne
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'' and ''
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
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''
* Reginald "Belch" Huggins, a minor antagonist in
Stephen King’s 1986 novel ''
It''
* Reginald "Red" Forman, in ''
That 70s Show
''That '70s Show'' is an American television period teen sitcom that aired on Fox from August 23, 1998, to May 18, 2006. The series focuses on the lives of a group of six teenage friends living in the fictional town of Point Place, Wisconsin, fr ...
''
* Reginald Roach, in the ''
RoboRoach
''RoboRoach'' is a Canadian animated television series which ran on Teletoon in Canada, Animania HD in the United States, and Fox Kids internationally. The title song was sung by Big Rude Jake. It follows the story of a cockroach named Ruben and ...
'' animated TV series
* Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright, in the ''
Endeavour'' TV series
* Reginald Bane, a recurring character in ''
Mysticons
''Mysticons'' is an animated television series that aired from August 28, 2017 to September 15, 2018. The show is a collaboration between companies Nelvana, Playmates Toys, and The Topps Company. The show was created by Sean Jara, who is also th ...
'' animated TV series
* Captain Reginald Thisleton, a World War I fighter pilot whom Woodhouse is heavily implied to have been lovers with in an episode of
Archer
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* Reginald "Reggie" Peters, a ghost teenager who forms with two other dead himbos and a living girl a band in ''Julie and the Phantoms''.
* Reginald Copperbottom, the leader of the Toppat Clan in the video game ''The Henry Stickmin Collection''
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