Reginald

Reginald
Gender	Male
Language(s)	English
Origin
Language(s)	Latin
Word/name	Reginaldus
Other names
Variant form(s)	Reginold
Short form(s)	Reg
Pet form(s)	Reggie
See also	Ragnall, Reinhold, Ronald, Rex

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

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
Swedish: Ragnvald
Tamil: ரெஜினால்டு (Rejiṉālṭu)
Telugu: రెజినాల్డ్ (Rejinālḍ)
Thai: เรจินัล (Recinạl)
Ukrainian: Реджинальд (Redzhynalʹd)
Welsh: Rheinallt
Yiddish: רעגינאַלד (Reginald)

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 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
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

^ ^a ^b ^c Learn about the family history of your surname, Ancestry.com, retrieved 2 November 2010 which cited: Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4 for the surname "Reynold".
^ ^a ^b ^c Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 228, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1
^ Reaney, Percy Hilde; Wilson, Richard Middlewood (2006), A Dictionary of English Surnames (3rd ed.), London: Routledge, p. 2626, ISBN 0-203-99355-1
^ McDonald, R. A. (2007). Manx Kingship in Its Irish Sea Setting, 1187–1229: King Rǫgnvaldr and the Crovan Dynasty. Dublin: Four Courts Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-84682-047-2.

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[ancestry-surname-1] Learn about the family history of your surname, Ancestry.com, retrieved 2 November 2010 which cited: Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4 for the surname "Reynold".

[Hanks1-2] Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 228, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1

[Reaney-3] Reaney, Percy Hilde; Wilson, Richard Middlewood (2006), A Dictionary of English Surnames (3rd ed.), London: Routledge, p. 2626, ISBN 0-203-99355-1

[4] McDonald, R. A. (2007). Manx Kingship in Its Irish Sea Setting, 1187–1229: King Rǫgnvaldr and the Crovan Dynasty. Dublin: Four Courts Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-84682-047-2.

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