Ragen
Ragen was last recorded in 2021, when 6 babies were given it; 598 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ragen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ragen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,857, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 2007, the peak
Ragen peaked in 2007, when 27 girls were given it, #5,350 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 6 | #14,857 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,888 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,168 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,489 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,776 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,254 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,170 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,092 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,118 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,237 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 15 | #8,196 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 19 | #7,004 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,660 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,350 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,769 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,817 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,127 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,985 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,048 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,513 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,882 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,410 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,299 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,778 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,838 | 12.0 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,620 | 9.7 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,564 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,522 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,894 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,426 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,061 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,543 | 4.9 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,524 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,288 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,245 | 5.3 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,803 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,199 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,958 | 12.0 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,136 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,605 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,852 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,436 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,734 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,402 | 13.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ragen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 598 Americans recorded as Ragen, 97% are girls and 3% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ragen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ragen, and how old are they?
An estimated 585 Americans named Ragen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 19 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 667 people named Ragen (561 women and girls, 106 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 576 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 32,299 babies since 1880, Ragen is the seventh most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 621 babies recorded by SSA was a Ragen (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Ragen
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 Ragen and names like it
- Compare Ragen and RaeganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRagen peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ragen since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Ragen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ragen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.