Rheagan
Rheagan was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,903 among girls’ names; 638 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rheagan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rheagan?
#12,903 among girls’ names, 2025
Rheagan fell from #5,266 in 2015 to #12,903 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.6 to 4.4 per million.
31 babies in 2004, the peak
Rheagan peaked in 2004, when 31 girls were given it, #4,461 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,903 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,842 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,475 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,538 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,877 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,414 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,057 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,184 | 11.8 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,487 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,959 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,266 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,237 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,201 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,522 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,102 | 12.5 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,559 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,259 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,246 | 14.8 |
| 2007 | 23 | #6,043 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,928 | 15.3 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,673 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,461 | 16.9 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,502 | 15.9 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,589 | 15.0 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,965 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,886 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,847 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,907 | 12.5 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,985 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,938 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,479 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,480 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,905 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,836 | 2.7 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,829 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rheagan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rheagan has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rheagan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rheagan, and how old are they?
An estimated 631 Americans named Rheagan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 542 people named Rheagan (530 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 572 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Rheagan?
Rheagan is a less common spelling of Reagan: SSA has recorded 638 Rheagan and 73,580 Reagan since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 98,349 babies since 1880, Rheagan is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 1,472 babies (<1%), the fifth 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 Rheagan
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 Rheagan and names like it
- Compare Rheagan and ReaganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRheagan peaked in 2004.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rheagan since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Rheagan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rheagan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.