what does everyone think of the name Reginald

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or Reggie - am asking for a friend who is deciding and really stuck x

Quite like Reggie - in the Alfie kind of way.

If she sticks with Reginald she will probably get the kind of comment I got when I named ds a quite unusual name, shocked face by HV then "Oh well, it's a name he will grow into!" What's THAT meant to mean?

FIL tried to sell it to us for ds actually. It's a family name .

It was never a goer for us, I had an unloveable Uncle Reg.

But I don't really see why not. Could be utterly retro cool in a couple of years

oh & definitely Reginald, not Reggie, if she goes for it.

Diminutives as legal first names = lifetime PITA explaining that it's not 'really' Reginald.

Really Reginald is a no in my book

there are few names I loathe more

What janeite said. Only with more 'ooo's.

So Reggie better that Reginald the general feeling...will pass on thanks again girls !

hatrick - are they really? Oh nooooo!

I have to say i don't like it but then i'm not keen on the whole 'Alfie, Archie, Ronnie' thing really.

I do think there will be a comeback of little 'Reggies' soon though. I know one and there was a baby on This Morning the other day called it. Not my cup of tea.

"you would have to be as cool as Vernon Kay to get away with a name like Vernon or Reginald"

As cool as Vernon Kay??? Sorry - no way is that possible. I mean - that's so unimaginably impossible. Pour in boiling water and that dude will piss you a bucket of ice cubes.

I know a 10 year old called Reggie...and whilst he is a lovely boy, I still don't like the name.
Also know a 20 year old Reginald/Reggie...and well, that guy did not help anything in making me like the name,lol...
It will always remnd me of that TV character ( possibly from "The Bill"...can't remember which series, but remember the character....he was a real stickler for rules and a bit odd)

lizinthesticks..but Vernon is actually a really cool name...unlike Reggie...well, imo

Reg is good

yikes
first thing i thought of was reggie perrin too
no, no, and thrice, no

i think she is stick on Reggie tbh

Rex? Could that be lengthened to Reggie? Not as bad as Reginald IMO