Daegan

Last seen for girls in 2015 at #16,419 · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to boys 95.0% of the time

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Peak · boys
#2,185
2007 · 61 births
Debut · boys
1993
10 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
904
since 1993

Daegan over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202006peak #12,420, 2006peak #2,185, 2007girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025—#10,6956
2024—#8,3129
2023——
2022—#5,44517
2021—#5,77615
2020—#4,54021
2019—#4,48022
2018—#4,91819
2017—#3,67829
2016—#3,29334
2015#16,4195#3,68429
2014#16,5135#4,26323
2013—#2,62345
2012—#3,45031
2011#14,8246#2,79842
2010—#2,82642
2009#15,2426#2,25258
2008#13,8327#2,58348
2007#17,6365#2,18561
2006#12,4208#2,37552
2005—#2,75239
2004#14,1796#3,21730
2003—#2,84734
2002—#3,79422
2001—#2,52038
2000—#2,99329
1999—#3,70420
1998—#2,85128
1997—#4,66813
1996—#3,83017
1995—#6,4078
1994—#4,53713
1993—#5,36010
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First appearance
1993

The first year at least five boys were named Daegan! It came in at #5,360, and was given to 10 baby boys.

Quietest stretch: 2023, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

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Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 2,383 spots since 2024 (#8,312 → #10,695)
  • 6,155 spots since 2020 (#4,540 → #10,695)
  • 7,011 spots since 2015 (#3,684 → #10,695)
Rise & fade · boys
14 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1993
  • Peaked 2007 at #2,185 (61 births)
  • Births halved by 2014, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 34,023
  • Highest: 1 in 34,023 boys born in 2007 were named Daegan (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 45.5% of all boys named Daegan (411) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s109#2,851 (1998)#4,480
2000s411#2,185 (2007)#2,752
2010s316#2,623 (2013)#3,601
2020s68#4,540 (2020)#6,954

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Daegan in 2006

girls
#12,420
8 births · 1 in 237,651 girls
boys
#2,375
52 births · 1 in 39,524 boys

Top girls' names in 2006

  1. #1Emily21,412
  2. #2Emma19,133
  3. #3Madison18,635
  4. #4Isabella18,231
  5. #5Ava16,941
  6. #6Abigail15,633
  7. #7Olivia15,508
  8. #8Hannah14,556
  9. #9Sophia13,503
  10. #10Samantha12,470
  11. #12,420Daegan8

Top boys' names in 2006

  1. #1Jacob24,871
  2. #2Michael22,653
  3. #3Joshua22,336
  4. #4Ethan20,522
  5. #5Matthew20,339
  6. #6Daniel20,082
  7. #7Andrew19,733
  8. #8Christopher19,688
  9. #9Anthony19,413
  10. #10William18,965
  11. #2,375Daegan52
More about 2006

girls

1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 237,651 of them was named Daegan, which outranked 38.1% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Daegan
  1. #11,417Zoa9
  2. #11,417Zorianna9
  3. #11,417Zyia9
  4. #12,420Daegan8
  5. #12,420Aajah8
  6. #12,420Aajaylah8
  7. #12,420Aaleah8
  8. #13,606Aalaya7
  9. #13,606Aamirah7
  10. #13,606Aamna7

Tied with 1,185 names at #12,420; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2005
Risers
  1. ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
  2. ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
  3. ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
  4. ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
  5. ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Fallers
  1. ↓ 2,134Mikalah#806 → #2,940
  2. ↓ 1,275Jolette#954 → #2,229
  3. ↓ 756Karol#818 → #1,574
  4. ↓ 446Litzy#388 → #834
  5. ↓ 305Devon#963 → #1,268

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

2,055,273 boys got a published name in 2006; 1 in 39,524 of them was named Daegan, which outranked 83.1% of the 14,047 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Daegan
  1. #2,348Tamir53
  2. #2,348Tymir53
  3. #2,348Zakkary53
  4. #2,375Daegan52
  5. #2,375Artemio52
  6. #2,375Aspen52
  7. #2,375Baltazar52
  8. #2,398Aarush51
  9. #2,398Abelardo51
  10. #2,398Abiel51

Tied with 22 names at #2,375; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2005
Risers
  1. ↑ 792Bode#1,648 → #856
  2. ↑ 790Talen#1,691 → #901
  3. ↑ 677Kingston#1,603 → #926
  4. ↑ 634Imanol#1,619 → #985
  5. ↑ 590Yandel#1,266 → #676
Fallers
  1. ↓ 2,208Baby#945 → #3,153
  2. ↓ 609Kanye#892 → #1,501
  3. ↓ 442Amarion#628 → #1,070
  4. ↓ 308Omarion#420 → #728
  5. ↓ 224Johnpaul#739 → #963

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2006 →