Tagen — boys' name
166 babies named Tagen in U.S. Social Security records since 1998, with the highest year being 2007. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
68% of everyone ever named Tagen was born in this single decade.
19 babies were named Tagen in 2007 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tagen
The Social Security Administration has registered 166 babies named Tagen between 1998 and 2019, spanning 22 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tagen currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 19 babies received it in a single year. Tagen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 99 additional births since 1999.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tagen performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 113 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Tagen shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tagen in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 166 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Tagen at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tagen popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1998
- Peak year (2007)
- 19
- Annual births at peak — across 22 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
166 total births across 22 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2007 with 19 births in a single year.
Tagen popularity over time — girls
99 total births recorded since 1999 (Tagen as girls' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The girls' variant of Tagen accounts for 37% of total recorded use across both genders.
Tagen by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 113 births that decade — 68% of Tagen's all-time total
Tagen decade highlights
- Peak decade 113 births
- Runner-up 41 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Tagen's strongest decade
113 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 68% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1998–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.