Regina
Around 41,000 Polish women carry it, but it's nearly gone from the maternity ward: only seven newborn girls last year. The name is Latin at root, from regina, "queen".
Regina Pronunciation
Regina is pronounced re-GEE-nah (/rɛˈgina/).
What Regina means
Where Regina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Regina comes straight from Latin, where regina simply means queen. The word belongs to the same family as rex, the king, and rego, to rule, so it sat in Roman mouths long before it became anyone's given name. In English you can still hear it in regal and reign.
The early Christian world gave the name a face. Saint Regina of Alise, a martyr venerated in Gaul in the third century, carried it, and the Latin title Regina Coeli, Queen of Heaven, kept the word near Marian devotion. The meaning held. Royalty was the plain sense of the word, never a borrowed image.
In Poland the name has been in use since 1386, and it keeps its Latin shape on the school register, read out in full at roll call. A variant, Rehina, appears where local spelling softened the g. The name-day falls most often on the seventh of September. Two thousand years on, the short meaning has not moved: królowa, queen.
When Regina celebrates name day
Regina appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 7 September.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Regina
1 in 552 women in Poland is named Regina. 40,869 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #212 among female names.
Regina's popularity over time
7 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #832 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2014. Still the #212 name among living women, even as it slips to #832 among newborns.
Where Regina is most popular
Regina is most popular in Pomeranian, 96% above the national average (4 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+83%) and Masovian (+83%). It is least common in Silesian, 5% below average.
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Pomeranian4 girls born+96%
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Lower Silesian4 girls born+83%
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Masovian9 girls born+83%
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Greater Poland4 girls born+34%
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Lesser Poland4 girls born+27%
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Łódź2 girls born+14%
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Silesian3 girls born−5%
Regina as a middle name
Regina is a first name for 40,869 women in Poland and a middle name for another 23,065, a 64/36 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 82nd, between Bogusława (23,319) and Michalina (22,836).
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#80 Maja23,460
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#81 Bogusława23,319
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#82 Regina23,065
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#83 Michalina22,836
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#84 Róża21,911