Ragna
Ragna was last recorded in 1927, when 5 babies were given it; 201 Americans have been recorded with it between 1885 and 1927 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ragna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ragna mean?
Wiktionary, Danish section
Ragna is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “counsel” (rǫgn).
Short form of female compound names beginning with the element Ragn-, from Old Norse rǫgn (“counsel”), such as Ragnhild.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Danish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ragna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,457, in 1927; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1915, the peak
Ragna peaked in 1915, when 18 girls were given it, #1,870 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | 5 | #5,457 | 4.2 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,615 | 4.2 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,168 | 6.2 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,195 | 6.0 |
| 1917 | 7 | #4,015 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,624 | 11.5 |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,870 | 18.3 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,591 | 11.8 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,297 | 14.4 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,584 | 12.5 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1911 | 7 | #2,151 | 16.7 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,325 | 15.7 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,882 | 20.6 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,627 | 25.4 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,892 | 20.9 |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,481 | 27.1 |
| 1897 | 12 | #971 | 51.2 |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,394 | 29.4 |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,402 | 30.0 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,459 | 26.9 |
| 1893 | 13 | #857 | 61.1 |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,314 | 31.5 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,247 | 33.6 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,252 | 33.6 |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,134 | 41.1 |
| 1885 | 9 | #786 | 67.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ragna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ragna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ragna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ragna, and how old are they?
Almost everyone recorded as Ragna was born before 1900, so the estimate of Americans with the name alive today rounds to none. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 691 babies since 1880, Ragna is the second most given (29% of them).
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 Ragna
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 Ragna and names like it
- Compare Ragna and RaginaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sRagna peaked in 1915.
- North Dakota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ragna since 1910.
- Danish namesWiktionary’s origin for Ragna: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Ragna.
- Names starting with RMost given first.