Regan
#2,276 for girls in 2025, 80 births · #5,399 for boys in 2025, 17 births
Given to girls 81.3% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2001 · 747 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 16,307since 1946
Regan over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,276 | 80 | #5,399 | 17 |
| 2024 | #2,347 | 78 | #3,986 | 27 |
| 2023 | #2,352 | 77 | #3,712 | 30 |
| 2022 | #1,720 | 121 | #4,570 | 22 |
| 2021 | #1,739 | 118 | #3,740 | 29 |
| 2020 | #1,721 | 117 | #3,734 | 28 |
| 2019 | #1,490 | 147 | #3,259 | 35 |
| 2018 | #1,399 | 160 | #3,106 | 37 |
| 2017 | #1,251 | 189 | #2,319 | 56 |
| 2016 | #1,164 | 216 | #2,661 | 46 |
| 2015 | #1,018 | 262 | #2,486 | 50 |
| 2014 | #1,074 | 238 | #2,429 | 52 |
| 2013 | #877 | 294 | #2,623 | 45 |
| 2012 | #823 | 327 | #2,238 | 58 |
| 2011 | #931 | 277 | #2,145 | 61 |
| 2010 | #722 | 390 | #2,354 | 54 |
| 2009 | #724 | 401 | #2,203 | 60 |
| 2008 | #688 | 441 | #1,948 | 73 |
| 2007 | #548 | 558 | #1,795 | 81 |
| 2006 | #568 | 518 | #2,126 | 61 |
| 2005 | #467 | 653 | #2,114 | 58 |
| 2004 | #420 | 726 | #1,911 | 64 |
| 2003 | #448 | 669 | #2,055 | 55 |
| 2002 | #397 | 737 | #1,851 | 61 |
| 2001 | #391 | 747 | #1,777 | 63 |
| 2000 | #469 | 592 | #1,514 | 79 |
| 1999 | #440 | 611 | #1,733 | 59 |
| 1998 | #431 | 615 | #1,768 | 57 |
| 1997 | #449 | 564 | #1,438 | 75 |
| 1996 | #490 | 487 | #1,725 | 54 |
| 1995 | #578 | 397 | #1,706 | 52 |
| 1994 | #612 | 365 | #1,421 | 68 |
| 1993 | #738 | 285 | #1,460 | 64 |
| 1992 | #892 | 220 | #1,914 | 42 |
| 1991 | #934 | 205 | #1,677 | 49 |
| 1990 | #1,080 | 163 | #1,635 | 50 |
| 1989 | #1,187 | 137 | #1,705 | 45 |
| 1988 | #1,261 | 116 | #1,879 | 35 |
| 1987 | #1,387 | 97 | #1,709 | 39 |
| 1986 | #1,314 | 101 | #2,360 | 23 |
| 1985 | #1,287 | 104 | #1,794 | 33 |
| 1984 | #1,137 | 120 | #1,842 | 30 |
| 1983 | #1,358 | 88 | #1,864 | 29 |
| 1982 | #1,461 | 82 | #1,774 | 32 |
| 1981 | #991 | 147 | #1,602 | 37 |
| 1980 | #650 | 281 | #1,010 | 80 |
| 1979 | #759 | 212 | #930 | 89 |
| 1978 | #791 | 189 | #977 | 78 |
| 1977 | #774 | 195 | #1,158 | 57 |
| 1976 | #823 | 169 | #1,238 | 49 |
| 1975 | #679 | 220 | #938 | 76 |
| 1974 | #751 | 188 | #1,409 | 37 |
| 1973 | #1,058 | 109 | #1,253 | 43 |
| 1972 | #1,380 | 72 | #1,603 | 29 |
| 1971 | #2,247 | 35 | #1,597 | 30 |
| 1970 | #2,203 | 36 | #1,523 | 31 |
| 1969 | #2,003 | 39 | #1,280 | 38 |
| 1968 | #2,205 | 30 | #1,506 | 27 |
| 1967 | #1,783 | 42 | #1,181 | 40 |
| 1966 | #1,632 | 47 | #835 | 76 |
| 1965 | #1,655 | 46 | #847 | 75 |
| 1964 | #1,610 | 50 | #815 | 85 |
| 1963 | #1,738 | 44 | #971 | 60 |
| 1962 | #2,113 | 31 | #1,038 | 54 |
| 1961 | #3,060 | 17 | #915 | 69 |
| 1960 | #3,512 | 13 | #996 | 59 |
| 1959 | #2,678 | 19 | #1,302 | 36 |
| 1958 | #2,972 | 16 | #1,446 | 29 |
| 1957 | #2,926 | 16 | #1,673 | 23 |
| 1956 | #2,249 | 24 | #1,257 | 37 |
| 1955 | #2,472 | 20 | #1,503 | 26 |
| 1954 | #2,889 | 15 | #1,408 | 29 |
| 1953 | #3,106 | 13 | #1,170 | 40 |
| 1952 | #2,581 | 17 | #1,378 | 30 |
| 1951 | #3,482 | 10 | #1,295 | 32 |
| 1950 | #2,909 | 13 | #1,340 | 29 |
| 1949 | #2,850 | 13 | #1,409 | 27 |
| 1948 | #2,828 | 13 | #1,758 | 18 |
| 1947 | #3,448 | 10 | #1,696 | 20 |
| 1946 | #4,417 | 6 | #2,690 | 8 |
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First appearance
1946
The first year at least five girls were named Regan! It came in at #4,417, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1946, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
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Momentum · girls
Falling
- 71 spots since 2024 (#2,347 → #2,276)
- 555 spots since 2020 (#1,721 → #2,276)
- 1,258 spots since 2015 (#1,018 → #2,276)
- Biggest jump: 307 spots in 1974 (#1,058 → #751)
- Biggest drop: 470 spots in 1982 (#991 → #1,461)
Rise & fade · girls
55 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1946
- Peaked 2001 at #391 (747 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 10 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 31 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 31 yrs · run 1991–2013
Share of babies · girls
1 in 2,410
- Highest: 1 in 2,410 girls born in 2001 were named Regan (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 20,091 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 37.1% of all girls named Regan (6,042) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1967
- Mostly boys until 1966, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 42 | #2,828 (1948) | #3,386 |
| 1950s | 163 | #2,249 (1956) | #2,826 |
| 1960s | 359 | #1,610 (1964) | #2,131 |
| 1970s | 1,425 | #679 (1975) | #1,147 |
| 1980s | 1,273 | #650 (1980) | #1,203 |
| 1990s | 3,912 | #431 (1998) | #664 |
| 2000s | 6,042 | #391 (2001) | #512 |
| 2010s | 2,500 | #722 (2010) | #1,075 |
| 2020s | 591 | #1,720 (2022) | #2,026 |
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.
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