In 2025, 8 US boys were named Regis, making it the 9,509th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,867 places from #7,642 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 11 boys named Regis in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #601, reached in 1917. That year also had the most boys given the name: 98. For comparison, it was #7,915 in 2015 and #804 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Regis in 125 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1897 with 5 babies. In all, 5,536 US babies have been given the name, 6.2% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 886 babies named Regis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 106 US boys were named Regis; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 14. In 2025 that was about 1 in 213,510 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.