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{{Infobox given name2 | name = Reginald | image = | image_size = | caption = | romanization = Reginaldus | pronunciation = {{IPAc-en|'|r|ɛ|.|dʒ|ɪ|.|n|ə|l|d}}, {{respell|REH|jih|nəld}} | gender = Male | name day = | feminine = | language = English | languageorigin = Germanic; Latin | origin = Latin: ''Reginaldus'' | derivation = ''ragin'' + ''wald'' | meaning = "advice", "counsel", "decision" + "rule", "ruler". | region = England | variant = Reginold | shortform = Reg | petname = Reggie | cognate = | anglicisation = Reginald | derivative = | related names = Reynold, Ragnall, Reinhold, Ronald, Rognvald | see also = Rex, Regina | popularity = | footnotes = | wikt = }}
'''Reginald''' is a masculine given name in the English language that derives from the Latin word for "king".<ref name="The Name Meaning">{{citation |url=https://www.thenamemeaning.com/reginald/ |title=What does Reginald Mean? |website=TheNameMeaning.com |publisher=The Name Meaning}}</ref>
==Etymology and history== The name Reginald comes from Latin meaning "king" and "ruler" symbolizing authority and leadership.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 2, 2025 |title=Biblical Meaning of Reginald: Unveiling Its Significance in Authority and Leadership |url=https://biblicalchronology.com/biblical-meaning-of-reginald/ |website=Biblical Chronology}}</ref> It comes from combining Latin “rex” meaning king and “nald” meaning ruler. The name is derived from ''Reginaldus'' which means "king".<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 7, 2024 |title=Reginald Name Meaning, Origin, History, And Popularity |url=https://www.momjunction.com/baby-names/reginald/ |website=Mom Junction}}</ref> This name signifies a ruler or kingly figure, representing authority and leadership. 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",<ref name="ancestry-surname"/> "decision";<ref name="Hanks1"/> the second element is ''wald'', meaning "rule",<ref name="ancestry-surname"/> "ruler".<ref name="Hanks1"/> The Old German form of the name is ''Raginald''; Old French forms are ''Reinald'' and ''Reynaud''.<ref name="Reaney">{{Citation |last=Reaney |first=Percy Hilde |author2=Wilson, Richard Middlewood |year=2006 |title=A Dictionary of English Surnames |edition=3rd |location=London |publisher=Routledge |isbn=0-203-99355-1 |page=2626 }}</ref>
Forms of this Germanic name were first brought to the British Isles by Scandinavians, in the form of the Old Norse ''Rögnvaldr''.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}} This name was later reinforced by the arrival of the Normans in the 11th century, in the Norman forms ''Reinald'' and ''Reynaud''.<ref name="ancestry-surname">{{citation |url=http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/default.aspx? |title=Learn about the family history of your surname |publisher=Ancestry.com |access-date=2 November 2010}} which cited: {{citation |title=Dictionary of American Family Names |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-508137-4 }} for the surname "Reynold".</ref>{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}
The Latin ''Reginaldus'' was used as a Latin form of cognate names, such as the Old Norse ''Rögnvaldr'', and the Gaelic ''Ragnall'' and ''Raghnall''.<ref>{{cite book |last=McDonald |first=R. A. |year=2007 |title=Manx Kingship in Its Irish Sea Setting, 1187–1229: King Rǫgnvaldr and the Crovan Dynasty |publication-place=Dublin |publisher=Four Courts Press |isbn=978-1-84682-047-2 |page=13 }}</ref>
== Translations == {{Div col}}
* Afrikaans: Ryno * Ancient Germanic: Raginald, Reinald, Reinhold * Ancient Scandinavian: Ragnvaldr * Arabic: ريجنالد (Ryǧināld) * Belarusian: Рэджынальд (Redžynaĺd) * Bulgarian: Реджиналд (Redzhinald) * Catalan: Renald * Chinese: 雷金纳德 (Léijīnnàdé) (雷金納德) * Danish: Ragnvald * Dutch: Reinoud, Reinout * Finnish: Reino * Filipino: Regino * French: Réginald, Renaud, Renoir, Renouard, Reynaud * German: Reinhold * Gujarati: રેજિનાલ્ડ (Rējinālḍa) * Hebrew: רג'ינלד (Rejinald) * Hindi: रेगीनाल्ड (Rēgīnālḍa) * Icelandic: Rögnvaldur * Irish: Raghnall * Italian: Rinaldo * Japanese: レジナルド (Rejinarudo) * Kannada: ರೆಜಿನಾಲ್ಡ್ (Rejinālḍ) * Korean: 레지날드 (Rejinaldeu) * Latin: Reginaldus * Macedonian: Реџиналд (Redžinald) * Middle Irish: Ragnall * Mongolian: Режиналд (Ryejinald) * Norwegian: Ragnvald * Old French: Reinald, Reynaud * Old German: Raginald * Old Irish: Ragnall * Old Norse: Rögnvaldr * Persian: رجینالد * Polish: Reginald, Romuald * Portuguese: Reginaldo, Reinaldo, Reynaldo, Ronaldo * Punjabi: ਰੇਜਿਨਾਲਡ (Rējinālaḍa) * Russian: Рогволод (Rogvolod) * Scottish Gaelic: Raghnall * Serbian: Региналд (Reginald) * Spanish: Reinaldo, Reynaldo, Reginaldo, Regino * Swedish: Ragnvald * Tamil: ரெஜினால்டு (Rejiṉālṭu) * Telugu: రెజినాల్డ్ (Rejinālḍ) * Thai: เรจินัล (Recinạl) * Ukrainian: Реджинальд (Redzhynalʹd) * Welsh: Rheinallt * Yiddish: רעגינאַלד (Reginald) {{Div col end}}
==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''.<ref name="Hanks1">{{citation |last1=Hanks |first1=Patrick |last2=Hardcastle |authorlink1=Patrick Hanks |first2=Kate |last3=Hodges |first3=Flavia |title=A Dictionary of First Names |edition=2nd |series=Oxford Paperback Reference |year=2006 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-861060-1 |pages=228 }}</ref>
==People with the name==
===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 ({{Circa|1110}}–1175), also High Sheriff of Devon * Raynald of Châtillon ({{Circa|1125|lk=no}}–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 {{Circa|1200|lk=no}} * Reginald (bishop of the Isles) (died {{Circa|1226|lk=no}}) * Reginald de Braose (1182–1228), Norman nobleman * Raynald of Belleville (died 1241), Hungarian prelate * Reginald of Piperno ({{Circa|1230|1290|lk=no}}), 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 ({{Circa|1295|lk=no}}–1343)
===Modern world=== * Reginald Arvizu (born 1969), American rock musician * Reginald Askew (1928–2012), British Anglican priest and academic * Reginald C. Barker (1881–1937), British-born American novelist * 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 Goodridge (born 1952), Liberian politician * Reginald Hill (1936–2012), British crime writer * 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 * Reg Keys, British anti-war campaigner and parliamentary candidate * Reginald Knight (died 1969), Rhodesian politician and judge. * Reginald Kray (1933–2000), one of the Kray twins, English criminals * 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 * King Reginald, the main antagonist of ''Dungeon Keeper 2'' * Reginald, a lion in 64 Zoo Lane
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