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regis Name Meaning and History

  1. French (Régis): occupational name for a local dignitary, from a derivative of Old French régir ‘to rule or manage’.
  2. French (Régis) and English: from Latin regis, genitive case of rex ‘king’, perhaps an occupational name for someone employed in the royal household, or a patronymic from a nickname.
  3. Italian: from Re, probably from an ablative form.
  4. German: habitational name from a place so named in Saxony.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The regis name in History

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Distribution of regis Families in the US in 1920
Number of regis families
 10-17
 4-9		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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