Regan
Regan is given to both girls and boys: 80 girls and 17 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,295 among girls’ names and #5,557 among boys’, #3,619 among all names counting both); 20,053 Americans have been recorded with it since 1920 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Regan every year since 1972.
An estimated 19,300 Americans named Regan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 19 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Regan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Regan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Regan is “a female given name transferred from the surname or from the name of the evil daughter of King Lear. William Shakespeare may have got the name from the ultimately same Irish source.”
Also “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Regan?
#2,295 among girls’ names, 2025
Regan fell from #1,024 in 2015 to #2,295 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.15 to 0.05 per 1,000.
810 babies in 2001, the peak
Regan peaked in 2001, when 810 babies were given it (747 girls, #391 among girls’ names). The 97 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 12% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 80 | #2,295 | 17 | #5,557 |
| 2024 | 78 | #2,360 | 27 | #4,049 |
| 2023 | 77 | #2,375 | 30 | #3,780 |
| 2022 | 121 | #1,730 | 22 | #4,662 |
| 2021 | 118 | #1,746 | 29 | #3,792 |
| 2020 | 117 | #1,725 | 28 | #3,785 |
| 2019 | 147 | #1,491 | 35 | #3,324 |
| 2018 | 160 | #1,402 | 37 | #3,154 |
| 2017 | 189 | #1,256 | 56 | #2,335 |
| 2016 | 216 | #1,170 | 46 | #2,678 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 262 | #1,024 | 50 | #2,517 |
| 2014 | 238 | #1,078 | 52 | #2,453 |
| 2013 | 294 | #880 | 45 | #2,657 |
| 2012 | 327 | #824 | 58 | #2,259 |
| 2011 | 277 | #933 | 61 | #2,165 |
| 2010 | 390 | #723 | 54 | #2,368 |
| 2009 | 401 | #726 | 60 | #2,222 |
| 2008 | 441 | #690 | 73 | #1,963 |
| 2007 | 558 | #548 | 81 | #1,809 |
| 2006 | 518 | #568 | 61 | #2,141 |
| 2005 | 653 | #469 | 58 | #2,119 |
| 2004 | 726 | #420 | 64 | #1,923 |
| 2003 | 669 | #448 | 55 | #2,070 |
| 2002 | 737 | #398 | 61 | #1,859 |
| 2001 | 747 | #391 | 63 | #1,788 |
| 2000 | 592 | #469 | 79 | #1,532 |
| 1999 | 611 | #440 | 59 | #1,742 |
| 1998 | 615 | #431 | 57 | #1,783 |
| 1997 | 564 | #450 | 75 | #1,448 |
| 1996 | 487 | #491 | 54 | #1,730 |
| 1995 | 397 | #579 | 52 | #1,723 |
| 1994 | 365 | #612 | 68 | #1,428 |
| 1993 | 285 | #738 | 64 | #1,463 |
| 1992 | 220 | #894 | 42 | #1,943 |
| 1991 | 205 | #936 | 49 | #1,685 |
| 1990 | 163 | #1,085 | 50 | #1,650 |
| 1989 | 137 | #1,190 | 45 | #1,723 |
| 1988 | 116 | #1,265 | 35 | #1,898 |
| 1987 | 97 | #1,392 | 39 | #1,726 |
| 1986 | 101 | #1,322 | 23 | #2,411 |
| 1985 | 104 | #1,294 | 33 | #1,828 |
| 1984 | 120 | #1,142 | 30 | #1,874 |
| 1983 | 88 | #1,367 | 29 | #1,893 |
| 1982 | 82 | #1,469 | 32 | #1,805 |
| 1981 | 147 | #995 | 37 | #1,625 |
| 1980 | 281 | #653 | 80 | #1,015 |
| 1979 | 212 | #761 | 89 | #934 |
| 1978 | 189 | #794 | 78 | #981 |
| 1977 | 195 | #777 | 57 | #1,173 |
| 1976 | 169 | #824 | 49 | #1,256 |
| 1975 | 220 | #681 | 76 | #943 |
| 1974 | 188 | #752 | 37 | #1,435 |
| 1973 | 109 | #1,063 | 43 | #1,265 |
| 1972 | 72 | #1,391 | 29 | #1,634 |
| 1971 | 35 | #2,288 | 30 | #1,627 |
| 1970 | 36 | #2,229 | 31 | #1,539 |
| 1969 | 39 | #2,019 | 38 | #1,296 |
| 1968 | 30 | #2,233 | 27 | #1,536 |
| 1967 | 42 | #1,814 | 40 | #1,194 |
| 1966 | 47 | #1,641 | 76 | #840 |
| 1965 | 46 | #1,664 | 75 | #853 |
| 1964 | 50 | #1,627 | 85 | #822 |
| 1963 | 44 | #1,747 | 60 | #979 |
| 1962 | 31 | #2,147 | 54 | #1,043 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,155 | 69 | #923 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,644 | 59 | #1,004 |
| 1959 | 19 | #2,734 | 36 | #1,315 |
| 1958 | 16 | #3,055 | 29 | #1,470 |
| 1957 | 16 | #3,007 | 23 | #1,709 |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,304 | 37 | #1,280 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,530 | 26 | #1,530 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,982 | 29 | #1,426 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,232 | 40 | #1,180 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,652 | 30 | #1,396 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,660 | 32 | #1,324 |
| 1950 | 13 | #3,019 | 29 | #1,359 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,961 | 27 | #1,423 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,939 | 18 | #1,804 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,649 | 20 | #1,723 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,839 | 8 | #2,858 |
| 1920 | under 5 | 5 | #4,833 |
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 Regan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 20,053 Americans recorded as Regan, 81% are girls and 19% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Regan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Regan, and how old are they?
19,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 20,053 Americans ever recorded as Regan. The median Regan alive today is 25 years old; half are between 19 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 18,676 people named Regan (15,317 women and girls, 3,359 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 18,804 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 788 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,560 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,690 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 9,730 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,550 |
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 Regan born?
The states with the most babies named Regan are Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #3,690 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,650 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,571 | 0.8× |
Where Regan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Regan is most over-represented in Kansas: since 1920 it was given 1.5 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 Regan 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 110,516 babies since 1880, Regan is the second most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 97 of their 2,472 babies (3.9%), the third 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 Regan
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 Regan and names like it
- Compare Regan and ReaganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRegan peaked in 2001.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Regan since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Regan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Regan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Regan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.