Dagen — boys' name
362 babies named Dagen in U.S. Social Security records since 1991, with the highest year being 2004. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
49% of everyone ever named Dagen was born in this single decade.
24 babies were named Dagen in 2004 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Dagen
The Social Security Administration has registered 362 babies named Dagen between 1991 and 2023, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dagen currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 24 babies received it in a single year. Dagen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 27 additional births since 2004.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Dagen performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 178 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Dagen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.
No etymological entry is currently available for Dagen in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 362 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Dagen at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Dagen popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1991
- Peak year (2004)
- 24
- Annual births at peak — across 33 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
362 total births across 33 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2004 with 24 births in a single year.
Dagen popularity over time — girls
27 total births recorded since 2004 (Dagen as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Dagen accounts for 7% of total recorded use across both genders.
Dagen by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 178 births that decade — 49% of Dagen's all-time total
Dagen decade highlights
- Peak decade 178 births
- Runner-up 103 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Dagen's strongest decade
178 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 49% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1991–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.