Daegan
Daegan was given to 6 boys in 2025, #10,941 among boys’ names; 952 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daegan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daegan?
#10,941 among boys’ names, 2025
Daegan fell from #3,708 in 2015 to #10,941 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.1 to 3.5 per million.
66 babies in 2007, the peak
Daegan peaked in 2007, when 66 babies were given it (61 boys, #2,190 among boys’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,941 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,461 | 5.2 |
| 2022 | 17 | #5,478 | 9.7 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,817 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,565 | 12.2 |
| 2019 | 22 | #4,508 | 12.3 |
| 2018 | 19 | #4,960 | 10.5 |
| 2017 | 29 | #3,689 | 15.7 |
| 2016 | 34 | #3,305 | 17.9 |
| 2015 | 29 | #3,708 | 15.1 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 23 | #4,288 | 12.0 |
| 2013 | 45 | #2,629 | 23.8 |
| 2012 | 31 | #3,460 | 16.3 |
| 2011 | 42 | #2,806 | 22.1 |
| 2010 | 42 | #2,831 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,258 | 29.2 |
| 2008 | 48 | #2,593 | 23.5 |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,190 | 29.4 |
| 2006 | 52 | #2,377 | 25.3 |
| 2005 | 39 | #2,757 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 30 | #3,228 | 15.1 |
| 2003 | 34 | #2,857 | 17.2 |
| 2002 | 22 | #3,806 | 11.3 |
| 2001 | 38 | #2,528 | 19.6 |
| 2000 | 29 | #3,003 | 14.8 |
| 1999 | 20 | #3,720 | 10.4 |
| 1998 | 28 | #2,867 | 14.6 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,709 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,845 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,498 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,577 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,418 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Daegan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 952 Americans recorded as Daegan, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Daegan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daegan, and how old are they?
An estimated 939 Americans named Daegan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 843 people named Daegan (74 women and girls, 769 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 880 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,772 babies since 1880, Daegan is the second most given (34% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Daegan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Daegan and names like it
- Compare Daegan and DaganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDaegan peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daegan since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Daegan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Daegan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.