Recorded 1994–2025 · United States
Reign was most popular in 2021, when 1,350 American babies were given the name — ranking #489 that year. In 2025 it ranked #645, with 1,015 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 11,991 people named Reign.
Reign first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1994, which makes it about 31 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 31 of the 32 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 11,991 American births named Reign between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 11,910 are estimated to be alive today.
1,015 American babies were named Reign in 2025, ranking #645 that year.
Reign is rising. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 1,205 births a year, against 174 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of +593% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Reign is a unisex name — 66.6% of the 11,991 Americans given it were girls and 33.4% were boys. It changed hands: since 2006 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 67% girls and 33% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 11,910 Americans named Reign are alive today — 99% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 5 years old, and half are between 3 and 8. That is a narrow band because Reign is a young name — it only became common recently, so almost everyone carrying it is still a child or a young adult.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org