Ragan
- #13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births
- Last seen for boys in 2021 at #9,714
- Given to girls 82.6% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 78 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,866since 1963
Ragan 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. Not on the chart: 6 boys in 1923 (see the data table).
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | — | |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | — | |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | — | |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 | — | |
| 2021 | #7,250 | 15 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | — | |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #7,100 | 16 | — | |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #6,901 | 17 | — | |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 | — | |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 | #8,781 | 8 |
| 2013 | #4,645 | 30 | — | |
| 2012 | #6,576 | 19 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 | #8,079 | 9 |
| 2010 | #5,247 | 26 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #3,737 | 42 | #7,692 | 10 |
| 2008 | #3,267 | 51 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,890 | 62 | #6,622 | 12 |
| 2006 | #3,368 | 48 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #2,969 | 54 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #2,927 | 54 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #2,321 | 72 | #6,715 | 10 |
| 2002 | #2,447 | 65 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,379 | 66 | #8,339 | 7 |
| 2000 | #2,174 | 73 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 1999 | #2,133 | 71 | #7,139 | 8 |
| 1998 | #1,940 | 78 | #5,466 | 11 |
| 1997 | #2,283 | 59 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #2,451 | 52 | #4,613 | 13 |
| 1995 | #2,687 | 45 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #2,877 | 41 | #5,452 | 10 |
| 1993 | #3,681 | 29 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | #3,773 | 28 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #3,443 | 31 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #3,623 | 29 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #5,049 | 17 | — | |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 | #4,786 | 9 |
| 1987 | #4,660 | 17 | — | |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 | — | |
| 1985 | #4,455 | 17 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #3,069 | 28 | #4,215 | 9 |
| 1983 | #4,686 | 15 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #4,716 | 15 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #2,723 | 33 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,981 | 53 | #4,495 | 8 |
| 1979 | #2,795 | 31 | #3,357 | 12 |
| 1978 | #2,350 | 38 | #2,929 | 14 |
| 1977 | #2,091 | 45 | #3,203 | 12 |
| 1976 | #1,968 | 45 | #3,264 | 11 |
| 1975 | #1,963 | 45 | #2,902 | 13 |
| 1974 | #2,348 | 33 | #3,837 | 8 |
| 1973 | #5,580 | 9 | — | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1971 | — | — | ||
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | — | |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | #3,845 | 12 | #3,231 | 7 |
| 1966 | #2,937 | 18 | #2,986 | 8 |
| 1965 | #3,549 | 13 | #2,178 | 14 |
| 1964 | #2,109 | 32 | #4,039 | 5 |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | #2,200 | 14 |
| 1962 | — | #2,673 | 10 | |
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| 1960 | — | #3,337 | 7 | |
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| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1963
The first year at least five girls were named Ragan! It came in at #6,592, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1972, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Ragan is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Ragan in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Ragan
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 1,066 spots since 2020 (#12,142 → #13,208)
Rise & fade · girls
35 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 1998 at #1,940 (78 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 12 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 22,653
- Highest: 1 in 22,653 girls born in 1998 were named Ragan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 31.5% of all girls named Ragan (587) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1973
- Mostly boys until 1972, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 94 | #2,109 (1964) | #4,378 |
| 1970s | 257 | #1,963 (1975) | #3,829 |
| 1980s | 220 | #1,981 (1980) | #4,299 |
| 1990s | 463 | #1,940 (1998) | #2,889 |
| 2000s | 587 | #2,174 (2000) | #2,848 |
| 2010s | 190 | #4,645 (2013) | #6,741 |
| 2020s | 55 | #7,250 (2021) | #10,832 |
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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