Regan

Where Regan comes from

The dictionaries list Regan as a given name — a male given name transferred from the surname — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1946
    First appearance
    #4,417 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1967
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1998
    Regan Poole born
    Welsh association football player
  4. 2001
    Peak, #391
    747 babies named Regan — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2002
    Regan Smith born
    American swimmer
  6. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #931.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
  • A female given name transferred from the surname or from the name of the evil daughter of King Lear. William Shakespeare may have got the name from the ultimately same Irish source.
  • A minor city in Burleigh County, North Dakota, United States.
Namesakes
  • Regan Smith · American swimmer, born 2002
  • Regan Poole · Welsh association football player, born 1998
  • Regan Gough · New Zealand track cyclist, born 1996
  • Regan Harrison · Australian swimmer, Olympic silver medallist, world champion, born 1977
  • Regan Charles-Cook · British association football player, born 1997

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.