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
- 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
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 | ||
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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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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.
Where Regan is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oregon#315 · 1 in 1,931
- Oklahoma#440 · 1 in 2,834
- Washington#460 · 1 in 3,278
- Minnesota#506 · 1 in 5,308
- Indiana#538 · 1 in 4,971
Best ever in a state: #90 in South Dakota, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Oregon | #315 | 8 | 1 in 1,931 |
| Oklahoma | #440 | 6 | 1 in 2,834 |
| Washington | #460 | 7 | 1 in 3,278 |
| Minnesota | #506 | 5 | 1 in 5,308 |
| Indiana | #538 | 7 | 1 in 4,971 |
| Virginia | #541 | 6 | 1 in 4,640 |
| Massachusetts | #553 | 5 | 1 in 5,931 |
| Tennessee | #621 | 5 | 1 in 5,573 |
| Missouri | #642 | 5 | 1 in 6,131 |
| Illinois | #677 | 12 | 1 in 5,909 |
| Ohio | #685 | 9 | 1 in 7,662 |
| Florida | #759 | 7 | 1 in 6,289 |
| New York | #806 | 14 | 1 in 7,023 |
| Michigan | #853 | 6 | 1 in 9,592 |
| Pennsylvania | #880 | 6 | 1 in 11,001 |
| Texas | #978 | 11 | 1 in 9,399 |
| California | #1,005 | 16 | 1 in 9,583 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Regan
- 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)
- Debuted 1946
- Peaked 2001 at #391 (747 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 31 yrs · run 1991–2013
- 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%)
- 37.1% of all girls named Regan (6,042) were born in this decade
- 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.
Regan in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 8,105 of them was named Regan, which outranked 93.1% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #788Leeann193
- #789Jesse191
- #790Maura190
- #791Regan189
- #791Danette189
- #791Deena189
- #791Jerri189
- #797Anitra188
- #797Kathrine188
- #797Lacie188
Tied with 5 names at #791; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 21,049 of them was named Regan, which outranked 85.6% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).