Sagan

#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · #5,399 for boys in 2025, 17 births
Given to boys 63.6% of the time

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Peak · boys
2018 · 63 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
748
since 1987

Sagan over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201988peak #1,891, 1988peak #2,189, 2018girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#11,9327#5,39917
2024#12,1617#4,43323
2023#6,40918#8,9218
2022#10,3839#3,34435
2021#8,46412#2,91842
2020#8,95311#3,57030
2019#8,59712#3,20136
2018#6,01020#2,18963
2017#5,19125#2,34555
2016#5,13026#2,47751
2015#5,45824#2,32856
2014#6,71318#2,98538
2013#7,03117#2,62345
2012#9,10912#3,89426
2011#9,15012#3,43431
2010#14,9596#3,81227
2009#15,2426#5,55416
2008#10,80710#5,48716
2007#12,6768#7,59010
2006#11,4179#6,90411
2005#5,87513
2004#11,6248#6,52011
2003#6,71510
2002#15,4325#6,52210
2001#13,5216#5,39013
2000#11,8017#4,20418
1999#12,6886#5,31712
1998#4,41315
1997#9,2655
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1991#7,98710
1990#7,30311
1989#5,04917
1988#1,89165
1987#4,28319#6,9515
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First appearance
1987

The first year at least five boys were named Sagan! It came in at #6,951, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1987–1997, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Sagan is popular in 1988

No state had 5 or more boys named Sagan in 1988, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Sagan
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 966 spots since 2024 (#4,433#5,399)
  • 1,829 spots since 2020 (#3,570#5,399)
  • 3,071 spots since 2015 (#2,328#5,399)
Rise & fade · boys
31 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1987
  • Peaked 2018 at #2,189 (63 births)
  • Births halved by 2020, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 28,828
  • Highest: 1 in 28,828 boys born in 2018 were named Sagan (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 100,475 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 57.2% of all boys named Sagan (428) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2024
  • Mostly girls until 2023, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s5#6,951 (1987)#6,951
1990s32#4,413 (1998)#6,332
2000s128#4,204 (2000)#6,076
2010s428#2,189 (2018)#2,929
2020s155#2,918 (2021)#4,764

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Sagan in 1988

girls
#1,891
65 births · 1 in 27,398 girls

Top girls' names in 1988

  1. #1Jessica51,556
  2. #2Ashley49,977
  3. #3Amanda39,459
  4. #4Sarah28,374
  5. #5Jennifer27,893
  6. #6Brittany26,816
  7. #7Stephanie22,843
  8. #8Samantha20,700
  9. #9Nicole20,315
  10. #10Elizabeth20,042
  11. #1,891Sagan65
More about 1988

girls

1,780,854 girls got a published name in 1988; 1 in 27,398 of them was named Sagan, which outranked 86.4% of the 13,883 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Sagan
  1. #1,863Sky66
  2. #1,863Stormie66
  3. #1,863Terrica66
  4. #1,891Sagan65
  5. #1,891Acacia65
  6. #1,891Autum65
  7. #1,891Brie65
  8. #1,911Aleesha64
  9. #1,911Annelise64
  10. #1,911Ariella64

Tied with 19 names at #1,891; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1987
Risers
  1. 2,890Jalissa#3,857#967
  2. 2,381Taja#3,101#720
  3. 1,710Whitley#2,156#446
  4. 1,225Jalisa#1,662#437
  5. 883Jaleesa#1,227#344
Fallers
  1. 620Channing#590#1,210
  2. 346Denisse#954#1,300
  3. 319Jeana#966#1,285
  4. 314Eliana#826#1,140
  5. 311Nakia#893#1,204

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1988