Reginald
Just 91 men in Poland carry it, so meeting one sticks in the memory. The name is Germanic at root, built from old words for counsel and rule.
Reginald Pronunciation
Reginald is pronounced re-GEE-nahlt (/rɛˈginalt/).
What Reginald means
Where Reginald comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Reginald grows from Germanic roots, joining `ragin`, meaning counsel, to `wald`, meaning power or rule. The old sense reads as ruler through counsel, someone whose authority rests on advice rather than force. That gives the English short meaning: counsel power, ruler.
The Normans carried the name into England, where it hardened into `Reynold` and the surname `Reynolds`. Walter Scott handed it to Reginald Front-de-Boeuf, the grim baron of Ivanhoe. A century later Saki built a set of stories around a languid young man called Reginald, all wit and idleness. One name held the warlord and the dandy.
It stayed English in temper. On a Polish class register, Reginald reads as an import, rare and a little formal, closer to English costume drama than to any local imieniny.
The spine holds: counsel joined to power, a ruler by advice.
When Reginald celebrates name day
Reginald appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 9 February.
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 Reginald
1 in 234573 men in Poland is named Reginald. 91 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3680 among male names.
Reginald as a middle name
Reginald is a first name for 91 men in Poland and a middle name for another 69, a 57/43 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 874th, between Konstantin (69) and Aziz (68).
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#872 Jaroslaw69
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#873 Konstantin69
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#874 Reginald69
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#875 Aziz68
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#876 Elliot68