Dagan

Last seen for girls in 2003 at #15,784 · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #12,349
Given to boys 99.1% of the time

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Peak · boys
2003 · 58 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,077
since 1969

Dagan over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Dagan has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201969peak #1,987, 2003boys
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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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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025
2024#12,3495
2023#8,9218
2022
2021#8,8258
2020#6,29613
2019#12,1455
2018#6,70312
2017#7,54610
2016#5,31817
2015#6,32413
2014#5,25217
2013#5,92314
2012#4,39022
2011#3,36432
2010#4,84819
2009#3,39932
2008#2,71745
2007#2,33755
2006#2,34853
2005#2,18255
2004#2,19353
2003#15,7845#1,98758
2002#2,15549
2001#2,52038
2000#15,0315#2,57836
1999#2,79530
1998#2,45035
1997#2,82327
1996#2,83826
1995#3,55918
1994#3,75117
1993#3,36819
1992#4,32713
1991#3,22419
1990#4,67311
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1987#3,95911
1986#5,9266
1985#3,21614
1984#3,45912
1983#3,63011
1982#4,2349
1981#3,41212
1980#3,83810
1979#2,56818
1978#2,92914
1977#3,20312
1976#2,94613
1975#3,9418
1974#2,45916
1973#4,0547
1972
1971#3,3709
1970#4,2306
1969#4,4045
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First appearance
1969

The first year at least five boys were named Dagan! It came in at #4,404, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1972, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Dagan
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
Rise & fade · boys
34 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1969
  • Peaked 2003 at #1,987 (58 births)
  • Births halved by 2010, 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 34,058
  • Highest: 1 in 34,058 boys born in 2003 were named Dagan (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 344,578 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 44.0% of all boys named Dagan (474) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s5#4,404 (1969)#4,404
1970s103#2,459 (1974)#3,300
1980s85#3,216 (1985)#3,959
1990s215#2,450 (1998)#3,381
2000s474#1,987 (2003)#2,442
2010s161#3,364 (2011)#6,181
2020s34#6,296 (2020)#9,098

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.

Dagan in 1969

boys
#4,404
5 births · 1 in 357,635 boys

Top boys' names in 1969

  1. #1Michael85,162
  2. #2David63,672
  3. #3James59,886
  4. #4John58,732
  5. #5Robert58,300
  6. #6William37,607
  7. #7Christopher35,672
  8. #8Mark33,388
  9. #9Brian31,669
  10. #10Richard31,085
  11. #4,404Dagan5
More about 1969

boys

1,788,174 boys got a published name in 1969; 1 in 357,635 of them was named Dagan, which outranked 12.7% of the 5,043 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 27.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Dagan
  1. #3,935Zach6
  2. #3,935Zeb6
  3. #3,935Zenon6
  4. #4,404Dagan5
  5. #4,404Abbott5
  6. #4,404Adrean5
  7. #4,404Adrin5

Tied with 639 names at #4,404; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1968
Risers
  1. 1,735Dedric#2,735#1,000
  2. 780Jameson#1,731#951
  3. 589Torrey#1,393#804
  4. 549Jamison#1,258#709
  5. 534Jemal#1,083#549
Fallers
  1. 449Artis#877#1,326
  2. 410Kennedy#986#1,396
  3. 408Alfie#968#1,376
  4. 360Micky#861#1,221
  5. 356Montgomery#946#1,302

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

See the top 100 for 1969