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English
Etymology
From Latin Reginaldus, Latinization of names deriving from Proto-Germanic *Raginawaldaz.
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Proper noun
Reginald
- A male given name from the Germanic languages derived from a Latinized form of Reynold.
1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, “Book 1, Chapter 4”, in Our Mutual Friend. , volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, , published 1865, →OCLC:Reginald Wilfer is a name with rather a grand sound, suggesting on first acquaintance brasses in country churches, scrolls in stained-glass windows, and generally the De Wilfers who came over with the Conqueror. For, it is a remarkable fact in genealogy that no De Any ones ever came over with Anybody else. - - - He was shy, and unwilling to own to the name of Reginald, as being too aspiring and self-assertive a name. In his signature he used only the initial R., and imparted what it really stood for, to none but chosen friends, under the seal of confidence.
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Popular in the UK in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Proper noun
Reginald m
- a male given name, equivalent to English Reynold or Ronald