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How popular is the name Reign?
Births per year, rank history and how many Reigns are alive today.
Reign (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 367th in 2025 with 114 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2024, when 153 babies were given the name, the 294th most popular that year. Numbers have been stable in recent years. Reign is one spelling of a name also recorded as Rain, Raine and Rayne; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Reign you are most likely to meet is around 2 years old. Half of all Reigns born in England and Wales are between 3 and 8, and there are at least 1,400 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Reign - on average, only one in every 217 such rooms contains a Reign.
How many babies are named Reign each year?
Includes all spellings: Reign, Rain, Raine, Rayne. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Reign spelling rank?
Where does the Rain spelling rank?
Where does the Raine spelling rank?
Where does the Rayne spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Reign most popular?
Reign peaked in 2024, when 183 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Reign?
At least 1,400 people named Reign in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Reign?
Most living Reigns are between 3 and 8; the most common age is about 2.
Is Reign becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.