Regina
Meaning of Regina
Regina glides through history clad in ermine and lullabies, her name lifted straight from the Latin word for “queen” and lovingly whispered through Italian piazzas as re-JEE-nah before crossing the Atlantic to become the softer ri-JEE-nuh. Legend paints her first footsteps in ancient Rome, where the title regina crowned deities and empresses alike, and medieval chronicles soon followed with Saint Regina, a young martyr whose courage still flickers like votive candles in tiny hill-town chapels. In modern times the crown has slipped playfully onto artists and actresses—think of crystalline-voiced pianist Regina Spektor or Oscar-winner Regina King—proving that a royal moniker can jam with a guitar as easily as it rules a red carpet. American popularity charts show a gentle waltz: Regina twirled near the Top 100 in the bell-bottom days of the 1970s, dipped gracefully in the new-millennium lull, yet remains a steadfast choice with just over 900 newborns in 2024. Parents drawn to the name often savor its regal poise, its built-in anthem “Hail, Holy Queen,” and the subtle promise that their daughter may command her own court—be it of teddy bears or boardrooms—without ever having to polish a real scepter (though a glittery hairband never hurts).
Pronunciation
Italian
- Pronunced as re-JEE-nah (/reˈdʒiːna/)
English
- Pronunced as ri-JEE-nuh (/rɪˈdʒiːnə/)
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Notable People Named Regina
| Regina Rene King is an American actress, director, and producer who has won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and four Primetime Emmys, and was named one of Time's 100 most influential people in 2019. |
| Regina Jonas, a Reform rabbi from Berlin, became the first woman ordained as a rabbi in 1935 and was later murdered in the Holocaust. |
| Regina E. Dugan is an American business executive, technologist, and government official who was the first female director of DARPA, serving from 2009 to 2012. |
| Regina Belle is an American singer-songwriter who rose in the 1980s, famed for duets with Peabo Bryson including the Grammy winning Aladdin theme A Whole New World, the hits Baby Come to Me and Make It Like It Was, and a Golden Globe nominated Swan Princess theme with Jeffrey Osborne. |
| Regina Daniels is a Nigerian actress, film producer, and entrepreneur. |
| Regina de Lamo Jiménez was a Spanish intellectual and activist who, as a pianist, music teacher, writer, and journalist, championed women's rights, cooperative economics, and syndicalist and anarchist ideas, sometimes writing as Nora Avante. |
| Regina is a Slovenian singer best known for competing in the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest. |
| Regina Barzilay is an Israeli American MIT computer scientist and professor who serves as AI faculty lead at the MIT Jameel Clinic and advances chemistry and oncology through natural language processing and deep learning. |
| Regina Brett is an American author and speaker who writes a Cleveland Jewish News column syndicated by Jewish News Service and has God Never Blinks in 24 languages, nine Polish books selling 900000 copies, and a new title Little Detours and Spiritual Adventures due November 2024. |
| Regina Romero is an American politician who has served as the 42nd mayor of Tucson, Arizona since 2019. |
| Regina Casé - Regina Case is a Brazilian actress, screenwriter, director, producer, and television presenter. |
| Regina Louise Kerr-Taylor is an American author, child advocate, and motivational speaker who navigated over 30 California foster homes after her father, the late singer songwriter Tom Brock, left her in foster care to pursue music. |
| Regina Doman is an American Christian writer born in 1970 in Havertown, Pennsylvania. |
| Regina Moran is a former Fujitsu Ireland and UK CEO, a 2014 President and Fellow of Engineers Ireland, and now Vodafone Enterprise Director and chair of THEA. |
