Ragan
Ragan was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,526 among girls’ names; 2,260 Americans have been recorded with it since 1923 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,180 Americans named Ragan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 21 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ragan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ragan?
#14,526 among girls’ names, 2025
Ragan fell from #7,525 in 2015 to #14,526 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.0 to 3.7 per million.
89 babies in 1998, the peak
Ragan peaked in 1998, when 89 babies were given it (78 girls, #1,948 among girls’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,526 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,139 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,151 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,411 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,553 | 7 | #10,533 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,150 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,300 | 5 | #13,665 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,344 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,358 | 6 | #11,864 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,156 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,525 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,565 | 8 | #9,407 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,731 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,814 | 6 | #11,920 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,685 | 9 | #8,603 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,373 | 9 | #8,624 |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,786 | 10 | #8,148 |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,306 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,919 | 12 | #6,973 |
| 2006 | 48 | #3,405 | 5 | #13,540 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,993 | 5 | #12,896 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,951 | 5 | #12,772 |
| 2003 | 72 | #2,336 | 10 | #7,107 |
| 2002 | 65 | #2,458 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 66 | #2,399 | 7 | #8,995 |
| 2000 | 73 | #2,182 | 7 | #8,906 |
| 1999 | 71 | #2,146 | 8 | #7,695 |
| 1998 | 78 | #1,948 | 11 | #5,736 |
| 1997 | 59 | #2,297 | 8 | #7,117 |
| 1996 | 52 | #2,469 | 13 | #4,813 |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,714 | 5 | #9,952 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,916 | 10 | #5,775 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,747 | 8 | #6,673 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,840 | 6 | #8,209 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,510 | 6 | #7,995 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,685 | 6 | #7,868 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,211 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,161 | 9 | #5,113 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,815 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,052 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,594 | 5 | #7,329 |
| 1984 | 28 | #3,121 | 9 | #4,464 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,826 | 7 | #5,339 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,882 | 5 | #7,112 |
| 1981 | 33 | #2,762 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 53 | #2,004 | 8 | #4,839 |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,839 | 12 | #3,513 |
| 1978 | 38 | #2,376 | 14 | #3,035 |
| 1977 | 45 | #2,114 | 12 | #3,331 |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,988 | 11 | #3,423 |
| 1975 | 45 | #1,977 | 13 | #3,036 |
| 1974 | 33 | #2,379 | 8 | #4,090 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,926 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,230 | 7 | #4,333 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,745 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,423 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,082 | 6 | #4,026 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,994 | 7 | #3,469 |
| 1966 | 18 | #3,012 | 8 | #3,182 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,686 | 14 | #2,242 |
| 1964 | 32 | #2,142 | 5 | #4,472 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,368 | 14 | #2,281 |
| 1962 | under 5 | 10 | #2,805 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 7 | #3,580 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 5 | #4,241 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 6 | #4,149 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Ragan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,260 Americans recorded as Ragan, 83% are girls and 17% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 girls; SSA lists no boys 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 Ragan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ragan, and how old are they?
2,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,260 Americans ever recorded as Ragan. The median Ragan alive today is 28 years old; half are between 21 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 2,187 people named Ragan (1,743 women and girls, 444 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,137 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 64 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 451 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 496 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 964 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 201 |
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 32,430 babies since 1880, Ragan is the second most given (7.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 621 babies (<1%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Ragan
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 Ragan and names like it
- Compare Ragan and RaeganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRagan peaked in 1998.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ragan since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Ragan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ragan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.