Reagan
#248 for girls in 2025, 1,244 births · #1,677 for boys in 2025, 98 births
Given to girls 89.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2012 · 3,088 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 4 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 65,739since 1956
Reagan 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 | #248 | 1,244 | #1,677 | 98 |
| 2024 | #244 | 1,297 | #1,573 | 110 |
| 2023 | #168 | 1,728 | #1,530 | 115 |
| 2022 | #147 | 1,988 | #1,306 | 145 |
| 2021 | #126 | 2,242 | #1,182 | 166 |
| 2020 | #114 | 2,373 | #1,196 | 160 |
| 2019 | #102 | 2,754 | #1,047 | 196 |
| 2018 | #107 | 2,820 | #1,018 | 202 |
| 2017 | #98 | 3,005 | #972 | 213 |
| 2016 | #98 | 3,097 | #999 | 204 |
| 2015 | #99 | 3,061 | #993 | 207 |
| 2014 | #106 | 2,903 | #999 | 206 |
| 2013 | #104 | 3,040 | #955 | 209 |
| 2012 | #97 | 3,088 | #893 | 234 |
| 2011 | #122 | 2,611 | #889 | 232 |
| 2010 | #127 | 2,480 | #971 | 203 |
| 2009 | #127 | 2,540 | #953 | 211 |
| 2008 | #142 | 2,385 | #977 | 204 |
| 2007 | #156 | 2,261 | #853 | 247 |
| 2006 | #156 | 2,238 | #792 | 260 |
| 2005 | #139 | 2,425 | #691 | 299 |
| 2004 | #145 | 2,269 | #596 | 366 |
| 2003 | #201 | 1,657 | #861 | 200 |
| 2002 | #198 | 1,624 | #774 | 223 |
| 2001 | #220 | 1,445 | #742 | 235 |
| 2000 | #286 | 1,131 | #875 | 180 |
| 1999 | #348 | 865 | #805 | 190 |
| 1998 | #332 | 889 | #925 | 153 |
| 1997 | #381 | 695 | #852 | 166 |
| 1996 | #446 | 567 | #930 | 140 |
| 1995 | #575 | 399 | #1,014 | 120 |
| 1994 | #702 | 298 | #1,268 | 85 |
| 1993 | #949 | 199 | #1,321 | 74 |
| 1992 | #1,243 | 140 | #1,731 | 49 |
| 1991 | #1,328 | 124 | #1,744 | 46 |
| 1990 | #1,670 | 88 | #1,587 | 52 |
| 1989 | #1,686 | 81 | #1,793 | 42 |
| 1988 | #1,757 | 72 | #1,618 | 44 |
| 1987 | #1,918 | 59 | #1,734 | 38 |
| 1986 | #2,003 | 54 | #1,873 | 32 |
| 1985 | #1,882 | 59 | #1,724 | 35 |
| 1984 | #1,812 | 59 | #1,933 | 28 |
| 1983 | #1,839 | 57 | #1,822 | 30 |
| 1982 | #1,922 | 55 | #1,815 | 31 |
| 1981 | #1,193 | 110 | #1,309 | 50 |
| 1980 | #925 | 161 | #1,204 | 58 |
| 1979 | #1,015 | 139 | #1,390 | 45 |
| 1978 | #876 | 167 | #1,229 | 53 |
| 1977 | #947 | 146 | #1,187 | 55 |
| 1976 | #1,098 | 110 | #1,828 | 27 |
| 1975 | #947 | 133 | #1,429 | 38 |
| 1974 | #1,438 | 70 | #1,471 | 35 |
| 1973 | #1,714 | 52 | #1,548 | 31 |
| 1972 | #3,177 | 20 | #1,819 | 24 |
| 1971 | #2,955 | 23 | #1,441 | 35 |
| 1970 | #3,208 | 20 | #1,494 | 32 |
| 1969 | #2,768 | 23 | #1,492 | 29 |
| 1968 | #2,969 | 19 | #1,962 | 17 |
| 1967 | #3,656 | 13 | #1,411 | 29 |
| 1966 | #3,266 | 15 | #1,484 | 27 |
| 1965 | #3,952 | 11 | #1,595 | 24 |
| 1964 | #2,675 | 22 | #1,581 | 25 |
| 1963 | #3,801 | 12 | #1,338 | 34 |
| 1962 | — | #1,713 | 22 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,900 | 9 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,973 | 17 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,200 | 14 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,677 | 22 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,751 | 21 | |
| 1956 | #4,837 | 7 | #2,168 | 14 |
| 1955 | — | #2,048 | 15 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,887 | 17 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,630 | 22 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,615 | 22 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,489 | 25 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,572 | 22 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,754 | 18 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,758 | 18 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,169 | 13 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,813 | 16 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,009 | 12 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,309 | 10 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,986 | 14 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,042 | 13 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,872 | 7 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,871 | 7 | |
| 1939 | — | #3,113 | 6 | |
| 1938 | — | #3,534 | 5 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,905 | 7 | |
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| 1932 | — | #3,361 | 6 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,651 | 9 | |
| 1930 | — | #3,022 | 8 | |
| 1929 | — | #3,959 | 5 | |
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| 1927 | — | #3,780 | 6 | |
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| 1924 | — | #3,505 | 7 | |
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| 1922 | — | #3,872 | 6 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,986 | 9 | |
| 1920 | — | #3,815 | 6 | |
| 1919 | — | #4,168 | 5 | |
| 1918 | — | #3,096 | 8 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,562 | 10 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,543 | 10 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,825 | 5 | |
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| 1913 | — | #2,821 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Reagan! It came in at #4,837, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1957–1962, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Reagan
- 4 spots since 2024 (#244 → #248)
- 134 spots since 2020 (#114 → #248)
- 149 spots since 2015 (#99 → #248)
- Biggest jump: 491 spots in 1975 (#1,438 → #947)
- Biggest drop: 268 spots in 1981 (#925 → #1,193)
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 2012 at #97 (3,088 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 4 yrs · run 2015–2017
- Top 1,000: 37 yrs · run 1993–2025
- Highest: 1 in 570 girls born in 2012 were named Reagan (0.18%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,292 girls born in 2025 (0.08%)
- 43.9% of all girls named Reagan (28,859) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1972, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 7 | #4,837 (1956) | #4,837 |
| 1960s | 115 | #2,675 (1964) | #3,298 |
| 1970s | 880 | #876 (1978) | #1,738 |
| 1980s | 767 | #925 (1980) | #1,694 |
| 1990s | 4,264 | #332 (1998) | #797 |
| 2000s | 19,975 | #127 (2009) | #177 |
| 2010s | 28,859 | #97 (2012) | #106 |
| 2020s | 10,872 | #114 (2020) | #175 |
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.
Reagan 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 1,988 of them was named Reagan, which outranked 98.0% 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).
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 12,493 of them was named Reagan, which outranked 91.8% 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).