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 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 723 of them was named Reagan, which outranked 99.4% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 9,401 of them was named Reagan, which outranked 93.4% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #950Jamarcus212
- #950Keyon212
- #950Makhi212
- #953Reagan211
- #953Dereon211
- #953Hayes211
- #953Lennon211
- #958Garrison210
- #958Jean210
- #958Maxx210
Tied with 4 names at #953; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.