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In Jewish communities and the historical Judeo-Anglo-Norman community, Regina was used as a vernacular form of Malka.
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Name after the queen Regina George? LUV THIS NAME.
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Pretty and sophisticated.
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No one cares if this name is Romansh.
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Also Romansh:
Source: "Vornamen in der Schweiz. Prénoms en Suisse. I nomi in Svizzera. Prenoms in Svizra" (1993) published by the Association of Swiss registrars
https://nossaistorgia.ch/entries/Y2vV5lpwZe3
https://www.portraitarchiv.ch/portrait?page=169
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Source: "Vornamen in der Schweiz. Prénoms en Suisse. I nomi in Svizzera. Prenoms in Svizra" (1993) published by the Association of Swiss registrars
https://nossaistorgia.ch/entries/Y2vV5lpwZe3
https://www.portraitarchiv.ch/portrait?page=169
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Can we PLEASE retire the pronunciation with the "jai nah" sound? Kids with this beautiful name will get bullied. It's from the Latin for "queen" and that's pronounced "GEE". You can check on Google Translate for the Latin pronunciation: https://translate.google.com/?sl=la&tl=en&text=regina%20&op=translate
It may be used as the preferred pronunciation for some places like the city, but can we just collectively retire that to stop the bullying?
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It may be used as the preferred pronunciation for some places like the city, but can we just collectively retire that to stop the bullying?
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Used to hate this name but really like it now. Couldn't say why.
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Regina George from Mean Girls = girl boss.
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No. It just sounds like vagina.
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Also Judeo-Anglo-Norman: http://heraldry.sca.org/names/jewish.html
Seror, Simon "Les noms des femmes juives en Angleterre au Moyen Âge"
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Seror, Simon "Les noms des femmes juives en Angleterre au Moyen Âge"
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In the Southern US, the name is pronounced Re-Gee-Na, with a long "e". However in British English, it's pronounced to rhyme with "vagina". 1st yr college, the professor called the roll & because of the bad sound system, & his British/Canadian pronunciation, it sounded like my name was "Vagina". I was hideously embarrassed, as 100 or so freshman were craning their necks to see who answered to Vagina. I hissed the proper pronunciation to folks nearby, who nodded in understanding. Ten yrs later, visiting in England, my hosts were very careful to emphasize "my" correct US pronunciation, when introducing me. I was so grateful.
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I can't even say the name backwards.
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I do have a male cousin (distant cousin) in my family tree who was called Regina. He was given the second name of John. I expect he went by Reg or Reggie; when he married his name was given as Reginald.
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My name is Regina and my nickname is Rain. I am from Philippines. There is nothing wrong with the name/nickname or the pronunciation. What matters most is the personality, attitude and the values of the one who use or have that name.
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Also Gascon and Provençal: https://ieo-oc.org/spip.php?page=article&id_article=300 --- Source: Institut d'Estudis Occitans
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Regina is pronounced reh-JEE-na.
It sounds nothing like 'vagina'.
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It sounds nothing like 'vagina'.
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Regina is a very beautiful name! I think it fits really, anybody!
#BeProudReginas
#LoveYourName.
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#BeProudReginas
#LoveYourName.
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Regina is also Croatian and Slovak. The name days for Regina in Croatia are August 22 and September 7. The name day for Regina in Slovakia is September 5. [noted -ed]
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Name sounds strong, looks strong, just a beautiful name. A lot of class. Should be used more often. Good name.
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It could be pronounced Re-GIN-a or Re-GEE-na.
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Regina is a beautiful name.
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Regina has a beautiful old-fashioned twang. *kissing noises* Aah. Beautiful.
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Regina (pronounced the the worse way) is the capitol of Saskatchewan, one of the Canadian prairie provinces.
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I don't know why some people pronounce Regina as "re-JIE-na". How do you pronounce the name "Gina"?
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Okay, My name is Regina and I personally don't really like it because of the pronunciation that rhymes with Vagina but I really like the meaning and I saw a comment that says that the nickname "REGGIE" was a dog's name. Like no. Some of my friends call me Reggie or Reese or Ginna but I go by Reggie and I think it can be a name a nickname or a dog's name✋.
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Your name is beautiful don’t think that.
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Wow, so much hate for my name! Regina Marie means Queen Mary, a solid Catholic name. Nicknames people call me: Jean (my mom ONLY), Reg or Reggie (almost exclusively by male friends or family), Regina Steamer, carpet cleaner (eye roll). I’m loving the suggestion of GiGi as a nickname. My main issues with the name are the occasional mispronunciations as Ra-JI-na and the fact that as a kid it was hard to find personalized key chains, etc.
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Regina George from the movie/musical Mean Girls, not the best association for this name...
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Regina is the name of the evil queen from Once Upon a Time.
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Also Slovene: https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_(ime)
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Also Dutch.
Dutch Pronunciation: reh-GEE-nah.
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Dutch Pronunciation: reh-GEE-nah.
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Also Corsican: http://www.corsicami.com/corse%20prenoms/prenoms_corses_m09.htm
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Also Estonian: https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_(eesnimi) [noted -ed]
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Don't like it.
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"Regina" is disgusting. I imagine it would be the name of an annoying spoiled teenager.
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It's an okay name, just don't choose to pronounce it as re-jie-na unless you want your child to be bullied for having a name that rhymes with Vagina.
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It's fine. Reyna is better. Gina is better. Rina is better. But Regina is perfectly fine. I don't have anything against this name, it just isn't personally something I'd consider great.
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It makes me think of the code name of the agent in the video games Dino Crisis and Dino Crisis 2. Even though that's a positive association, I really don't like the name.
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Regina is a pretty name and I would pronounce it re-jee-na.
Pronouncing it re-jai-na makes it rhyme with the name of a certain part of the female anatomy... 0_0.
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Pronouncing it re-jai-na makes it rhyme with the name of a certain part of the female anatomy... 0_0.
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I don’t know why so many characters are called Regina and are bad.
I myself think that Regina is a lovely name.
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I myself think that Regina is a lovely name.
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Regina means "queen" in Italian. As a name it's considered really old-fashioned in Italy.
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Also Catalan: http://www.idescat.cat/noms/?q=Regina&lang=en.
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I like the name when pronounced Reh-GEE-nuh. Unfortunately, the first Regina I ever met was a duplicitous, horse-faced troublemaker. So that image always came to mind whenever I was introduced to a new person named Regina! Just sayin'.
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I always pronounced this name reh-GEE-nuh, also I really like this name, especially the meaning.
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A beautiful name, perfect for your little queen. (I prefer it pronounced re-GEE-na.)
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Regina is a classic name and is gorgeous, goes beautifully as Regina Elizabeth. I love Regina with my favorite daughter name: Victoria, so Victoria and Regina. So elegant! And I love the nicknames Gigi, Queenie and Ginny for the baby. A perfect name in my opinion and I love the mean girl reference.
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In 2018, 46 is the most common age for an American (U.S.) Regina who is registered female with the Social Security Administration. It is the 353rd most common female first name for living U.S. citizens.
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The "j-eye-nah" sound in this name is not attractive.
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Proper pronunciation is: Reh•j•eye•nah. There is no "geena" sound.
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The nickname for Regina is Gina or Ginny. The nickname for Reginald is Reggie.
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I LOVE THIS NAME! If I have a redheaded baby, I'm thinking of naming her Regina and calling her Ginny for short. (Reggie is a dogs name, come on people).
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I kind of like this name, mainly because of Once Upon a Time's Regina, who used to be one of my favorite characters. However, now I find Regina one of the most obnoxious characters in the series, and I think it would have been better if she had stayed a villain. Due to this, I'm not sure how I feel about this name anymore.
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My name is Regina, and I don't like my name, as horrible as that sounds because it is ALWAYS pronounced incorrectly. It is pronounced, reh-hee-nah because I am Mexican but people always pronounce it wrong on purpose to annoy me.
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Regina Blois Duarte (born February 5, 1947 in Franca, São Paulo) is a Brazilian film, television and stage actress and one of the most famous actresses in Brazilian show business.
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Regina George from the movie Mean Girls.
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Regina Hall is an American film and television actress and comedian. She is perhaps best known for her lead role as Brenda Meeks in the first four Scary Movie films. Hall, who was an English major in college and studied journalism in graduate school, envisioned a career as a journalist, but ventured into acting in her late twenties.
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Hate this name because it gives off a bitchy vibe, and not just because of Regina from Mean Girls.
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My name is Regina (Reh-jee-nuh) and I like my name, one of the reasons being the amount of nicknames people come up with. I'm pretty chill with whatever people call me - Regina, Reg, Reginald, Reggie, Gina are the most common, my favorite being Reg, because it's simple and casual. However, I DETEST the pronunciation Re-ji-na for obvious reasons, and I dislike Re-gee-nah as well. I don't love Reggie, but I don't mind it much anymore.
I get a lot of comments on how pretty my name is, especially if I say my middle name with it - Regina Rose. I was named after the Blessed Mother, and I love the name meaning.
Overall, I think it's a fun name, since it can be both formal and casual. Just be prepared for a boatload of nicknames! ;)
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I get a lot of comments on how pretty my name is, especially if I say my middle name with it - Regina Rose. I was named after the Blessed Mother, and I love the name meaning.
Overall, I think it's a fun name, since it can be both formal and casual. Just be prepared for a boatload of nicknames! ;)
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There's a character on the TV show Brooklyn 99 named Regina.
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I can understand why this name isn't too common in the U.K. (probably was never on the charts) because the way they apparently say this name, it rhymes with the word, Vagina. \:
Reh-gee-na is loads better! Over in the states the name is alright\ok-ish but over in the U.K. it sounds dreadful and awful.
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Reh-gee-na is loads better! Over in the states the name is alright\ok-ish but over in the U.K. it sounds dreadful and awful.
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Regina is such a beautiful name. I love the meaning "queen". :)
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In Italy this name is pretty unusual, maybe due to is meaning. Infact, Regina means "queen" and I think that this make the name heavy to bring.
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Regina is the name of the Evil Queen on the TV show Once Upon a Time.
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Regina Casé is a Brazilian actress and comedienne.
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It can also be pronounced re-HEE-nuh in Spanish-speaking countries. In my high school Spanish class, this was my "Spanish name" and I loved it. :)
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The musical (but not the movie) Rock of Ages featured the character Regina (pronounced "re-jign-ah") Koontz, the hippie-ish city planner who protests the main antagonist's attempt to rid the city of it's rock n roll lifestyle.
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It´s my mother´s name. Really old-fashioned here in Brazil. I can´t imagine a little girl with this name.
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I really like the sound of this name, but I would probably spell it Regena to avoid mispronunciation.
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My cousin is named Regina (Reggie for short). Everyone in my family loved Reggie but she did get teased for her real name, Regina.
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Regina Doman, author of the Fairy Tale Novels series. The books are retellings of fairy tales set in modern times.
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This is now currently my favorite name because Regina Spektor is my favorite person in the world wide world.
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I love this name, but only pronounced reh jee na. Reh jie na just reminds me too much of... well, you know.
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Regina Engstrand is the maid (and it emerges lovechild of Captain Alving) in Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's 'Ghosts' (1881). When I saw this performed was the first time I'd heard it pronounced with a hard g, and I absolutely loved that pronunciation. I'm not as keen on the soft g pronunciation, but I do love Regina Spektor, so she helps my impression of it!
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This is the name of a rock band from Sarajevo. Not exactly a famous person, but a group of people. With 'Bistra Voda' they managed to score 9th place with 106 points in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009.
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A famous bearer is spoiled, demure, princess-y Regina Berry from video game Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney: Justice For All.
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This is my name and I absolutely love it. When I was younger I didn't like it as much because it was so different. But now, I am happy that I have such a unique name. And I love that it means "Queen." This is a beautiful and elegant name.
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This is also the Croatian form.
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Regina is such a beautiful name, although every time I hear it, it reminds me of the main mean girl in Mean Girls, even though that does not bother me, I still love it.
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Regina Redlich is the young girl in the Academy Award-winning 2001 German film 'Nowhere in Africa,' which was based on Stefanie's Zweig's memoirs of her family escaping to Kenya in the late Thirties. I started to like the German pronunciation of the name, with a hard G, after seeing the film, and had to cringe whenever the English principal of Regina's school pronounced her name Re-JY-na.
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I hate it when people call me 'Reg' for short. It really sounds like 'wretch'.
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Regina Spektor (b. 1980) is a Russian born singer-songwriter/ pianist based in New York City. Her music is indie/piano rock. Her music is amazing, and her vocals are beautiful!
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Kind of a pretty name, when pronounced Re-gee-na. I'm not crazy about the nickname Reggie though. It sounds too much like "veggie" or "wedgie". (Can't you just imagine a little kid saying that?)
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My mother's name is Regina, and she always goes by Gina. She can't stand being called Reggie.
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Regina Rajchrtová-Kordová, a tennis player, born 5th February, 1968.
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In the 1984 film, Night of the Comet, Catherine Mary Stewart plays "Regina", who goes by "Reggie". In fact, when she is playing in the arcade, her initials are REG. Night of the Comet is one of those awesome dorky forgotten movies of the 80's.
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I love this name when it is pronounced Re-jee-na.
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My name is Regina (re-GEE-na, I hate the other pronunciation). I used to dislike it when I was younger, but I just asked people to call me Gina instead. Now I use either. I don't like the nickname Reg though; I cringe when people call me that. It sounds too masculine for me.
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Salve Regina, Mater Misericordiae is a Marian (of Mary, Mother of God) title. It means "Hail Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy." She deserves this title as she is the mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
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It's my name and I'm really proud of it, because it means "queen".
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Also a feminine name in Slovenia.
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I don't like any pronunciation of this name, but the worst is re-JY-na. You know what happens to children whose names rhyme with body parts.
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I love the name Regina, I have loved it since I was little. I think it's spiffy because there are a choice of nicknames: Reg, Reggie, Geen, Gina. Maybe I would spell it Regeena, but I would probably stick with Regina. Yes, Regina Spektor is a musician, and an amazing one at that. I think it's also a nice name if you're catholic and are going to get confirmed and need to pick a saint name. (I'm not catholic, otherwise I'd totally pick this one!). But I would totally name my kid this. And I'd pronounce it ruh-gee-na[h].
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It's a pretty word. I've always liked the sound of it. I can understand why people would want to name their child this. The only problem is that everyone would associate it with things that have already been mentioned in other comments. I wouldn't use it myself, but go ahead if you want to.
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Gina is a common nickname in Sweden, where the G is hard, re-GEE-nah, GEE-nah.
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Regina is the name of a character in the movie "Mean Girls".
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In the movie Mean Girls, I think they meant this name to be ironic or coincidental, as Regina is considered the "Queen Bee" of the plastics and the name means queen.
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Regina is the feminine form of Reginald.
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I think Regina Aurelita goes really well, isn't Regina meant to be said like Re-Jeen-A? I like the Nickname Gina, not Regie.
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The G is hard in Latin (not ecclesiastical Latin). Regina, which has its origins in Latin, is therefore supposed to be 're-GEE-na' with a hard G. Obviously, in contemporary times the hard G is no longer popular.
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I really dislike this name. It sounds old and drab to me.
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English royalty always have 'R' after their names, for Rex (meaning king) or Regina (meaning Queen). They do have surnames, the present royal family are the Windsors.
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Obviously it is regal, sophisticated and gorgeous.
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Regina Spektor is a New York singer and pianist. Her music is phenomenal!
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Elegant and sublime.
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At this very moment, I'm listening to the R&B singer Regina Belle.
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Regina is sometimes used, somewhat un-offically, behind the name of a queen, since royalty have no surnames. Then Regina would go in and act like one.
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This is my name and I've always loved it, even though sometimes I get teased about it when some English pronounce it like the female organ but that's rather rarely.
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There is a book called 'I am Regina', based on a true person. Regina was kidnapped by Native Americans in the beginning of the story and was eventually returned to her mother.
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Regina is the leader of the Plastics in the film Mean Girls starring Lindsay Lohan. Regina is played by Rachel McAdams.
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I would never pronounce this name as "re-JIEN-a"; that makes it sound too much like a similar sounding, feminine organ, if you get my meaning.
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The correct pronunciation of the Canadian city is "re-JIEN-a." I've heard the broadcasters on CBC pronounce Regina in this manner.
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