Ragan
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · Last seen for boys in 2021 at #9,714
Given to girls 82.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 78 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,866since 1963
Ragan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | — | |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | — | |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | — | |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 | — | |
| 2021 | #7,250 | 15 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | — | |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #7,100 | 16 | — | |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #6,901 | 17 | — | |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 | — | |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 | #8,781 | 8 |
| 2013 | #4,645 | 30 | — | |
| 2012 | #6,576 | 19 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 | #8,079 | 9 |
| 2010 | #5,247 | 26 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #3,737 | 42 | #7,692 | 10 |
| 2008 | #3,267 | 51 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,890 | 62 | #6,622 | 12 |
| 2006 | #3,368 | 48 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #2,969 | 54 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #2,927 | 54 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #2,321 | 72 | #6,715 | 10 |
| 2002 | #2,447 | 65 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,379 | 66 | #8,339 | 7 |
| 2000 | #2,174 | 73 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 1999 | #2,133 | 71 | #7,139 | 8 |
| 1998 | #1,940 | 78 | #5,466 | 11 |
| 1997 | #2,283 | 59 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #2,451 | 52 | #4,613 | 13 |
| 1995 | #2,687 | 45 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #2,877 | 41 | #5,452 | 10 |
| 1993 | #3,681 | 29 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | #3,773 | 28 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #3,443 | 31 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #3,623 | 29 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #5,049 | 17 | — | |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 | #4,786 | 9 |
| 1987 | #4,660 | 17 | — | |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 | — | |
| 1985 | #4,455 | 17 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #3,069 | 28 | #4,215 | 9 |
| 1983 | #4,686 | 15 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #4,716 | 15 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #2,723 | 33 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,981 | 53 | #4,495 | 8 |
| 1979 | #2,795 | 31 | #3,357 | 12 |
| 1978 | #2,350 | 38 | #2,929 | 14 |
| 1977 | #2,091 | 45 | #3,203 | 12 |
| 1976 | #1,968 | 45 | #3,264 | 11 |
| 1975 | #1,963 | 45 | #2,902 | 13 |
| 1974 | #2,348 | 33 | #3,837 | 8 |
| 1973 | #5,580 | 9 | — | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1971 | — | — | ||
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | — | |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | #3,845 | 12 | #3,231 | 7 |
| 1966 | #2,937 | 18 | #2,986 | 8 |
| 1965 | #3,549 | 13 | #2,178 | 14 |
| 1964 | #2,109 | 32 | #4,039 | 5 |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | #2,200 | 14 |
| 1962 | — | #2,673 | 10 | |
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| 1960 | — | #3,337 | 7 | |
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| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ragan! It came in at #6,592, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1972, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Ragan
- 1,047 spots since 2024 (#12,161 → #13,208)
- 1,066 spots since 2020 (#12,142 → #13,208)
- 5,942 spots since 2015 (#7,266 → #13,208)
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 1998 at #1,940 (78 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 22,653 girls born in 1998 were named Ragan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 31.5% of all girls named Ragan (587) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1972, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 94 | #2,109 (1964) | #4,378 |
| 1970s | 257 | #1,963 (1975) | #3,829 |
| 1980s | 220 | #1,981 (1980) | #4,299 |
| 1990s | 463 | #1,940 (1998) | #2,889 |
| 2000s | 587 | #2,174 (2000) | #2,848 |
| 2010s | 190 | #4,645 (2013) | #6,741 |
| 2020s | 55 | #7,250 (2021) | #10,832 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ragan in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 22,653 of them was named Ragan, which outranked 88.3% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,921Shakayla79
- #1,921Shanelle79
- #1,921Wynter79
- #1,940Ragan78
- #1,940Aerial78
- #1,940Alexcia78
- #1,940Arin78
- #1,958Alexzandra77
- #1,958Ariyana77
- #1,958Baileigh77
Tied with 17 names at #1,940; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 173,761 of them was named Ragan, which outranked 51.7% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,159Zedekiah12
- #5,159Zhane12
- #5,159Zyaire12
- #5,466Ragan11
- #5,466Aaric11
- #5,466Abdoulaye11
- #5,466Abdulmalik11
- #5,840Aayush10
- #5,840Abdoul10
- #5,840Abdulwahab10
Tied with 373 names at #5,466; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.