Regina is a Late Latin feminine name meaning "queen" from the Latin, Italian, Portuguese 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)
Ρήγαινα (Rigena, Regena), Ρεγγίνα,(Regina), Βασίλισσα (Vasilissa) (Greek)
Regine (German/Norwegian)
Ríona, Ríonach (Irish)
Reina (Spanish)
Notable people
Regina (freedwoman) (2nd-century), a Romano-British woman known from her tombstone at South Shields, UK.
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 de Jesús Betancourt Ramírez (born 1936), known to her followers as Regina 11, Colombian self-described mystic, faith healer, mentalist and psychic
Regina Bianchi (1921–2013), Italian actress
Regina Casé (born 1954), Brazilian actress, screenwriter, director, producer and television presenter
Regina Marie Cuttita (fl. 1978–1993), stage name Regina (American singer), American pop singer
Regīna Ezera (1930–2002), Latvian author
Regina Frank (born 1965), German textile artist
Regina Fryxell (1899–1993), American educator and musician
Regina Chistyakova (born 1961), Lithuanian distance runner
Regina George (sprinter) (born 1991), American-born Nigerian sprinter
Regina Gwynn (born 1979), American tech entrepreneur
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 Khayatt (1881–?), Egyptian educator, philanthropist, feminist, suffragist and temperance worker
Regina King, (born 1971), American actress and director
Regina Kittler (born 1955), German politician
Regina Kodymová-Jirkalová (born 1966), Czech sports shooter
Regina Kopp-Herr (born 1957), German politician
Regina de Lamo (1870–1947), Spanish intellectual
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 Nissen (born 1961), German swimmer
Regina Quintanilha (1893–1967), Portuguese lawyer
Regina Rajchrtová (born 1968), Czech tennis player
Regina Resnik (1922–2013), American opera singer
Regina Shotaro (born 1981), Micronesian sprinter
Regina Spektor (born 1980), Russian-born American singer
Regina Uchoa (born 1959), Brazilian volleyball player
Regina Veloso (1939–2024), was a Portuguese swimmer
Regina von Habsburg (1925–2010), German-born Austrian social worker
Regina Washington, American public health professional, activist and researcher