Regina is a Late Latin feminine name meaning "queen" from the Latin, Italian and Romanian word meaning the same. Regina was the name of an early Christian saint.
Variant forms include: Queenie (English) Raina, Rayna, Raya (Bulgarian) Régine (French) Ρεγγίνα (Regina) (Greek) Regine (German/Norwegian) Ríona, Ríonach (Irish) Reina (Spanish)
Notable people
Regina (American singer), American pop singer
Regina 11 (born 1936), Colombian self-described mystic, faith healer, mentalist and psychic Regina Askia-Williams (born 1967), Nigerian actress and model Régina Badet (1876–1949), French actress and dancer Regina Belle (born 1963), American singer-songwriter Regina Benjamin (born 1956), American physician Regina Bianchi (1921–2013), Italian actress Regina Casé (born 1954), Brazilian actress, screenwriter, director, producer and television presenter Regina de Lamo (1870–1947), Spanish intellectual Regīna Ezera (1930–2002), Latvian author Regina Fryxell (1899–1993), American educator and musician Regina Chistyakova (born 1961), Lithuanian distance runner Regina George (born 1991), American-born Nigerian sprinter Regina Honu, Ghanaian social entrepreneur and software developer Regina José Galindo (born 1974), Guatemalan performance artist Regina Kalinichenko (born 1985), Ukrainian and Russian handballer Regina Kapeller-Adler (1900–1991), Austrian biochemist Regina Kodymová-Jirkalová (born 1966), Czech sports shooter Regina Lesoma, South African politician Regina Leung (born 1957), Hong Kong solicitor Regina Louise (born 1963), American author, child advocate and motivational speaker Regina M. Anderson (1901–1993), American playwright and librarian Regina Maršíková (born 1958), Czech tennis player Regina Martínez Pérez (1963–2012), Mexican journalist Regina Rajchrtová (born 1968), Czech tennis player Regina Resnik (1922–2013), American opera singer Regina Spektor (born 1980), Russian-born American singer Regina Uchoa (born 1959), Brazilian volleyball player Regina von Habsburg (1925–2010), German-born Austrian social worker
See also
Reginald
Regina (disambiguation)