Reign

Where Reign comes from

The dictionaries list Reign as a given name — a male given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1996
    First appearance
    #11,807 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2006
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 2021
    Peak, #349
    891 babies named Reign — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
Namesakes

No widely known Reign turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.