Hagen
Hagen was given to 73 boys in 2025, #2,044 among boys’ names; 3,428 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,380 Americans named Hagen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hagen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hagen mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Hagen is “a male given name”
/ˈhaːɡən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hagen?
#2,044 among boys’ names, 2025
Hagen fell from #1,456 in 2015 to #2,044 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 60.5 to 42.7 per million.
145 babies in 2006, the peak
Hagen peaked in 2006, when 145 babies were given it (135 boys, #1,240 among boys’ names). The 73 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 73 | #2,044 | 42.7 |
| 2024 | 69 | #2,142 | 40.0 |
| 2023 | 89 | #1,806 | 52.0 |
| 2022 | 93 | #1,773 | 53.3 |
| 2021 | 114 | #1,540 | 65.2 |
| 2020 | 85 | #1,781 | 49.2 |
| 2019 | 95 | #1,684 | 52.9 |
| 2018 | 111 | #1,533 | 61.1 |
| 2017 | 105 | #1,559 | 56.7 |
| 2016 | 128 | #1,383 | 67.4 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 116 | #1,456 | 60.5 |
| 2014 | 124 | #1,379 | 64.6 |
| 2013 | 111 | #1,478 | 58.7 |
| 2012 | 126 | #1,350 | 66.4 |
| 2011 | 117 | #1,419 | 61.6 |
| 2010 | 122 | #1,379 | 63.6 |
| 2009 | 126 | #1,361 | 63.5 |
| 2008 | 133 | #1,309 | 65.2 |
| 2007 | 128 | #1,328 | 61.7 |
| 2006 | 135 | #1,240 | 65.7 |
| 2005 | 99 | #1,472 | 49.6 |
| 2004 | 93 | #1,469 | 46.9 |
| 2003 | 98 | #1,376 | 49.6 |
| 2002 | 90 | #1,432 | 46.4 |
| 2001 | 79 | #1,526 | 40.7 |
| 2000 | 74 | #1,587 | 37.7 |
| 1999 | 55 | #1,804 | 28.6 |
| 1998 | 58 | #1,747 | 30.3 |
| 1997 | 47 | #1,935 | 24.9 |
| 1996 | 60 | #1,620 | 31.7 |
| 1995 | 38 | #2,146 | 20.0 |
| 1994 | 29 | #2,573 | 15.0 |
| 1993 | 21 | #3,178 | 10.7 |
| 1992 | 11 | #4,999 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,581 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 14 | #4,047 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,883 | 7.0 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,384 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,128 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,716 | 6.5 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,453 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,706 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,643 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,756 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,680 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 10 | #3,953 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,330 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,214 | 3.0 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,724 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hagen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,428 Americans recorded as Hagen, 7% are girls and 93% boys. In 2025 it went to 73 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 Hagen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hagen, and how old are they?
3,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,428 Americans ever recorded as Hagen. The median Hagen alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 2,624 people named Hagen (217 women and girls, 2,407 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,847 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 25 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 264 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,660 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,430 |
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).
Where are babies named Hagen born?
The states with the most babies named Hagen are Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arkansas and Oklahoma are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 20 | #1,114 | 2.1× |
| Arkansas | 12 | #293 | 1.0× |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #736 | 3.2× |
Where Hagen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hagen is most over-represented in Utah: since 1973 it was given 3.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Hagen with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,421 babies since 1880, Hagen is the most given (63% of them). In 2025 it was given to 73 of their 106 babies (69%), again the most given.
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 Hagen
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 Hagen and names like it
- Compare Hagen and HaganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sHagen peaked in 2006.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hagen since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Hagen: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Hagen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Hagen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.