Dagan
Dagan was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 1,087 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,060 Americans named Dagan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 18 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dagan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dagan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,717, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
63 babies in 2003, the peak
Dagan peaked in 2003, when 63 babies were given it (58 boys, #1,987 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #12,717 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,089 | 4.7 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,987 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,367 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,550 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,778 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,691 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,358 | 9.0 |
| 2015 | 13 | #6,404 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 17 | #5,294 | 8.9 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 14 | #5,981 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 22 | #4,418 | 11.6 |
| 2011 | 32 | #3,379 | 16.8 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,874 | 9.9 |
| 2009 | 32 | #3,414 | 16.1 |
| 2008 | 45 | #2,721 | 22.1 |
| 2007 | 55 | #2,343 | 26.5 |
| 2006 | 53 | #2,352 | 25.8 |
| 2005 | 55 | #2,185 | 27.5 |
| 2004 | 53 | #2,192 | 26.7 |
| 2003 | 58 | #1,987 | 29.4 |
| 2002 | 49 | #2,157 | 25.2 |
| 2001 | 38 | #2,529 | 19.6 |
| 2000 | 36 | #2,577 | 18.3 |
| 1999 | 30 | #2,805 | 15.6 |
| 1998 | 35 | #2,462 | 18.3 |
| 1997 | 27 | #2,834 | 14.3 |
| 1996 | 26 | #2,846 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,574 | 9.5 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,776 | 8.8 |
| 1993 | 19 | #3,385 | 9.7 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,361 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 19 | #3,234 | 9.4 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,721 | 5.4 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,014 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,086 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,242 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,498 | 6.6 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,665 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,294 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,456 | 6.7 |
| 1980 | 10 | #3,898 | 5.6 |
| 1979 | 18 | #2,601 | 10.5 |
| 1978 | 14 | #2,954 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,231 | 7.3 |
| 1976 | 13 | #2,974 | 8.3 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,018 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 16 | #2,481 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,146 | 4.5 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,414 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,337 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,517 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dagan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dagan has been given almost only to boys: 10 girls in 52 years of records.
Girls and boys named Dagan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dagan, and how old are they?
1,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,087 Americans ever recorded as Dagan. The median Dagan alive today is 23 years old; half are between 18 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 1,030 people named Dagan (78 women and girls, 952 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,034 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 107 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 189 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 638 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 121 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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, Dagan is the most given (39% 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 Dagan
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 Dagan and names like it
- Compare Dagan and DaeganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDagan peaked in 2003.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dagan since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Dagan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dagan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.