Sagan
Sagan is given to both girls and boys: 7 girls and 17 boys were given it in 2025 (#12,941 among girls’ names and #5,570 among boys’, #9,315 among all names counting both); 1,176 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,160 Americans named Sagan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 8 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sagan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sagan?
#5,570 among boys’ names, 2025
Sagan fell from #2,347 in 2015 to #5,570 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 29.2 to 10.0 per million.
83 babies in 2018, the peak
Sagan peaked in 2018, when 83 babies were given it (63 boys, #2,205 among boys’ names). The 24 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 29% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,941 | 17 | #5,570 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,217 | 23 | #4,538 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,622 | 8 | #9,588 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,080 | 35 | #3,397 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,888 | 42 | #2,962 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,432 | 30 | #3,635 |
| 2019 | 12 | #9,016 | 36 | #3,243 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,194 | 63 | #2,205 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,309 | 55 | #2,378 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,258 | 51 | #2,509 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,631 | 56 | #2,347 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,936 | 38 | #3,024 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,316 | 45 | #2,660 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,604 | 26 | #3,981 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,614 | 31 | #3,497 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,579 | 27 | #3,880 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,878 | 16 | #5,757 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,440 | 16 | #5,716 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,682 | 10 | #8,057 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,227 | 11 | #7,329 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 13 | #6,148 | |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,523 | 11 | #6,885 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 10 | #7,137 | |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,565 | 10 | #6,948 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,951 | 13 | #5,606 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,860 | 18 | #4,343 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,060 | 12 | #5,587 |
| 1998 | under 5 | 15 | #4,600 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 5 | #10,520 | |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,039 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,455 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,745 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,223 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 65 | #1,904 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,432 | 5 | #7,914 |
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 Sagan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,176 Americans recorded as Sagan, 36% are girls and 64% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Sagan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sagan, and how old are they?
1,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,176 Americans ever recorded as Sagan. The median Sagan alive today is 11 years old; half are between 8 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 989 people named Sagan (378 women and girls, 611 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 958 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 128 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 334 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 700 |
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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Sagan
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.
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