Raegan
Raegan was given to 589 girls in 2025, #506 among girls’ names; 25,492 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 25,200 Americans named Raegan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raegan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Raegan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Raegan is “a female given name transferred from the surname.”
Modern fanciful spelling of Reagan.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Raegan?
#506 among girls’ names, 2025
Raegan fell from #271 in 2015 to #506 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.65 to 0.37 per 1,000.
1,417 babies in 2019, the peak
Raegan peaked in 2019, when 1,417 babies were given it (1,406 girls, #219 among girls’ names). The 594 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 42% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 589 | #506 | 0.37 |
| 2024 | 683 | #459 | 0.42 |
| 2023 | 730 | #422 | 0.45 |
| 2022 | 994 | #324 | 0.61 |
| 2021 | 1,126 | #282 | 0.69 |
| 2020 | 1,172 | #260 | 0.73 |
| 2019 | 1,406 | #219 | 0.84 |
| 2018 | 1,245 | #264 | 0.73 |
| 2017 | 1,218 | #262 | 0.71 |
| 2016 | 1,133 | #282 | 0.64 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,167 | #271 | 0.65 |
| 2014 | 1,025 | #323 | 0.57 |
| 2013 | 1,043 | #307 | 0.59 |
| 2012 | 1,082 | #295 | 0.61 |
| 2011 | 931 | #342 | 0.53 |
| 2010 | 889 | #359 | 0.50 |
| 2009 | 862 | #376 | 0.47 |
| 2008 | 816 | #395 | 0.43 |
| 2007 | 816 | #402 | 0.42 |
| 2006 | 727 | #438 | 0.38 |
| 2005 | 619 | #495 | 0.33 |
| 2004 | 598 | #493 | 0.33 |
| 2003 | 515 | #542 | 0.28 |
| 2002 | 524 | #524 | 0.29 |
| 2001 | 478 | #550 | 0.27 |
| 2000 | 411 | #618 | 0.23 |
| 1999 | 317 | #716 | 0.18 |
| 1998 | 284 | #760 | 0.16 |
| 1997 | 263 | #793 | 0.15 |
| 1996 | 181 | #1,032 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 158 | #1,122 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 123 | #1,360 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 74 | #1,912 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 59 | #2,259 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 52 | #2,435 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 37 | #3,056 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,538 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,449 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,945 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,848 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,276 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,949 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,632 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,670 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 51 | #2,052 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 85 | #1,445 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 90 | #1,373 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 76 | #1,499 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 81 | #1,400 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 42 | #2,091 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 76 | #1,398 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 54 | #1,703 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,436 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,243 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,873 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,209 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,962 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,046 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,993 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 18 | #3,010 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,124 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,887 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,812 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Raegan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 25,492 Americans recorded as Raegan, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 589 girls and 5 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Raegan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raegan, and how old are they?
25,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 25,492 Americans ever recorded as Raegan. The median Raegan alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 18,263 people named Raegan (18,028 women and girls, 235 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 20,252 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 29 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 589 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 881 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 10,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 13,600 |
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 Raegan born?
The states with the most babies named Raegan are New York, California and Florida, with 21% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 41 | #425 | 0.5× |
| California | 37 | #811 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 37 | #498 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 28 | #1,028 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 26 | #349 | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 24 | #468 | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 24 | #484 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 24 | #449 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 23 | #360 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 22 | #505 | 1.2× |
Where Raegan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Raegan is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1956 it was given 1.6 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 girls’ 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 Raegan 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 32,430 babies since 1880, Raegan is the most given (79% of them). In 2025 it was given to 594 of their 621 babies (96%), 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 Raegan
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 Raegan and names like it
- Compare Raegan and RaganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRaegan peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raegan since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Raegan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Raegan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Raegan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.