Reginald is a masculine given name in the English language.

Etymology and history

The name is derived from the Latin Reginaldus, which has been influenced by the Latin word regina, meaning " queen". This Latin name is a Latinisation of a Germanic language name. The Germanic name is composed of two elements: the first ragin, meaning "advice", "counsel", ^[1] "decision"; ^[2] the second element is wald, meaning "rule", ^[1] "ruler". ^[2] The Old German form of the name is Raginald; Old French forms are Reinald and Reynaud. ^[3]

Forms of this Germanic name were first brought to the British Isles by Scandinavians, in the form of the Old Norse Rögnvaldr.^{[ citation needed]} This name was later reinforced by the arrival of the Normans in the 11th century, in the Norman forms Reinald and Reynaud. ^{[1][ citation needed]}

The Latin Reginaldus was used as a Latin form of cognate names, such as the Old Norse Rögnvaldr, and the Gaelic Ragnall and Raghnall. ^[4]

Translations

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. ^[2]

People named Reginald

Middle Ages

Ordered chronologically

• Reginald I, Count of Burgundy (986–1057), second Count of the Free County of Burgundy
• Reginald I, Count of Bar, Count of Bar (1105–1149)
• Reginald de Dunstanville, 1st Earl of Cornwall (c. 1110–1175), also High Sheriff of Devon
• Raynald of Châtillon (c. 1125–1187), also known as Reginald of Châtillon, a knight in the Second Crusade and Prince of Antioch
• Reginald of Sidon (1130s–1202), Count of Sidon and an important noble in the Kingdom of Jerusalem
• Reginald of Canterbury, medieval French writer around 1200
• Reginald (bishop of the Isles) (died c. 1226)
• Reginald de Braose (1182–1228), Norman nobleman
• Raynald of Belleville (died 1241), Hungarian prelate
• Reginald of Piperno (c. 1230–c. 1290), Italian Dominican, theologian and companion of St. Thomas Aquinas
• Reginald of Bar (bishop of Metz) (died 1316)
• Reginald of Burgundy (died 1321), Count of Montbéliard from 1282 to 1321
• Reginald II, Duke of Guelders (c. 1295–1343)

Modern world

• Reginald Arvizu (born 1969), American rock musician
• Reginald Askew (1928–2012), British Anglican priest and academic
• Reginald Bonham, English blind chess player
• Reginald Bosanquet (1932–1984), British television newsreader best known for presenting News At Ten
• Reginald Denny (actor), English stage, film, and television actor
• Reginald Oliver Denny, the truck driver nearly beaten to death during the Los Angeles riots in 1992
• Elton John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight), English singer
• Reginald Dyer (1864-1927), British-Indian army officer, mostly remembered for ordering the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919.
• Reginald Earnshaw (1927–1941), believed to be the youngest person in the British services to have died in the Second World War
• Reginald Fessenden (1866–1932), inventor who conducted pioneering experiments in radio
• Reggie Fils-Aimé (born 1961), American businessman and former president/COO of Nintendo of America
• Reg Fleming (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, British anti-war campaigner and parliamentary candidate
• Reginald Lee (1870-1913), lookout stationed in the crow's nest of the RMS Titanic when the ship collided with an iceberg
• Reggie Miller (born 1965), former National Basketball Association player, member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
• Reginald Mitchell (1885-1937), British aeronautical engineer, designer of the Supermarine Spitfire
• Reginald Noble, best known as Redman
• Reginald Orton (1810–1862), British surgeon
• Reginald Owen (1887-1972), British character actor
• Reginald Perera (1915-1977), Sri Lankan Sinhala Trotskyist
• Reginald Pole (1500–1558), English Archbishop of Canterbury and cardinal
• Reginald Sydney Vernon Poulier (1894-1976), Sri Lankan Burgher civil servant
• Reginald Prentice (1923–2001), British politician
• Reginald Punnett (1875–1967), British geneticist
• Reg Saunders (1920–1990), Australian army officer
• Reginald Tennekoon, Sri Lankan Sinhala MP for Minipe
• Reg Varney (1916–2008), English actor, entertainer and comedian
• Reginald VelJohnson (born 1952), American actor
• Reggie White (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), professional wrestler and former acrobat

Fictional characters

• Reginald, in Saki short stories
• Reginald, nemesis and cousin of Richie Rich in the movie and comic books
• Reginald Barclay, a recurring character in the Star Trek fictional universe
• Reginald Bunthorne, the main character of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera Patience
• Bushroot, Reginald Bushroot, supervillain in the Disney television series Darkwing Duck
• Reginald Deadman, police constable in the British television sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart
• Reggie Mantle, 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 popular BBC-commissioned 1970s comedy based upon it
• Reginald Jeeves, 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
• Reginald "Bubbles" Cousins, in the American television series The Wire
• Reginald, a fictional koala in American Dad!, voiced by Erik Durbin
• Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford, the protagonist in a series of mysteries by Ruth Rendell
• General Reginald Peter Skarr, in Evil Con Carne and The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
• Reginald "Belch" Huggins, a minor antagonist in Stephen King’s 1986 novel It
• Reginald "Red" Forman, in That 70s Show
• Reginald Roach, in the RoboRoach animated TV series
• Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright, in the Endeavour TV series
• Reginald Bane, a recurring character in Mysticons 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
• 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
• Reginald Tetra, a coffin maker in the visual novel Cemetery Mary
• Reginald, a lion in 64 Zoo Lane

References

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