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.
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 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 4,288 of them was named Regan, which outranked 96.6% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 27,947 of them was named Regan, which outranked 86.7% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,932Stefano74
- #1,932Trysten74
- #1,932Zen74
- #1,948Regan73
- #1,948Alexi73
- #1,948Anas73
- #1,948Ares73
- #1,969Adalberto72
- #1,969Eitan72
- #1,969Eloy72
Tied with 20 names at #1,948; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.