Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20170725142404/@comment-31564770-20170729025419

I saw somewhere on this thread or the 7x02 thread that we know Regina's bar is called Roni's, so people speculated Regina's curse name will be Roni. If, as I suspect, Roni's ends up being the meeting point/community center for the HH cursed characters, like Granny's was in SB, then I certainly wouldn't put it past the writers to do what they did with Granny's and have the bar's name be the owner's name. Regina owning the bar seems like a totally legitimate most likely scenario, so it is pretty likely her name is Roni- except that I disagree. Many of the names on Once relate to the character's personality or actions or whatever. In Regina's case, her name literally means "Queen." Yes, that was because Cora pretty much wrote her intentions on her daughter's birth certificate, but still. It's a name relating to both her actions and personality, I think that's pretty clear. What I'm saying is we can expect cursed names to follow similar rules, no? I looked up the meaning of Roni, and it's Hebrew, meaning "joy" or "song." I can't see either of those relating to Regina no matter how much they mess with her under a curse. But I did find something else- Roni is a diminutive of Veronica. Veronica means "true image" and, wait for it, it's also of Latin origin like the name Regina. Giving cursed Regina a name meaning "true image" is so ironic that it just might happen, because of course cursed altered Regina isn't who she truly is. Plus I can totally see a denim-wearing seen-it-all down to earth Regina going for a nickname like Roni. So now my bet is for her cursed name being Veronica.

If anyone wants the behind the name site for Veronica, here it is, though it doesn't really say anything more than what I did here. https://www.behindthename.com/name/veronica