Reginald

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. This name was later reinforced by the arrival of the Normans in the 11th century, in the Norman forms Reinald and Reynaud.[1]

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]

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]

• 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