Ragan
Ragan is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 70.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 199878 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1963
- 2,254people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,860 girls have been named Ragan in the United States since 1963, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1998, with 78 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 2000s alone account for 32%.
Ragan is used for both sexes: 17% of its bearers are boys (394), most of them born around 1963.
By decade
In 1998, its biggest year
Ragan was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1998 were Emily, Hannah, Samantha, Sarah and Ashley. See all of 1998.
Names that rose and fell with Ragan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Makiapeak 2002
- Maijapeak 1999
- Keelypeak 1997
- Tanayapeak 2005
- Reganpeak 2001
- Takiyapeak 2002
- Melizapeak 1997
- Tamirapeak 1999
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.