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

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Peak · girls
1998 · 78 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,866
since 1963

Ragan over time

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201963peak #1,940, 1998peak #2,178, 1965girlsboys
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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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#13,2086—
2024#12,1617—
2023#12,1977—
2022#8,03213—
2021#7,25015#9,7147
2020#12,1427—
2019#9,73610#12,1455
2018#7,10016—
2017#7,09216#10,7756
2016#6,90117—
2015#7,26616—
2014#7,30216#8,7818
2013#4,64530—
2012#6,57619#10,7706
2011#5,54324#8,0799
2010#5,24726#8,1399
2009#3,73742#7,69210
2008#3,26751—
2007#2,89062#6,62212
2006#3,36848#12,0555
2005#2,96954#11,4725
2004#2,92754#11,3565
2003#2,32172#6,71510
2002#2,44765—
2001#2,37966#8,3397
2000#2,17473#8,2097
1999#2,13371#7,1398
1998#1,94078#5,46611
1997#2,28359#6,6188
1996#2,45152#4,61313
1995#2,68745#8,8685
1994#2,87741#5,45210
1993#3,68129#6,2288
1992#3,77328#7,4226
1991#3,44331#7,2716
1990#3,62329#7,1786
1989#5,04917—
1988#5,89513#4,7869
1987#4,66017—
1986#5,75712—
1985#4,45517#6,5235
1984#3,06928#4,2159
1983#4,68615#4,9077
1982#4,71615#6,3855
1981#2,72333—
1980#1,98153#4,4958
1979#2,79531#3,35712
1978#2,35038#2,92914
1977#2,09145#3,20312
1976#1,96845#3,26411
1975#1,96345#2,90213
1974#2,34833#3,8378
1973#5,5809—
1972#8,2925#3,9637
1971——
1970#7,0706—
1969#5,9747—
1968#5,6427#3,6736
1967#3,84512#3,2317
1966#2,93718#2,9868
1965#3,54913#2,17814
1964#2,10932#4,0395
1963#6,5925#2,20014
1962—#2,67310
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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 1963

No state had 5 or more girls named Ragan in 1963, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Ragan
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 1,047 spots since 2024 (#12,161 → #13,208)
  • 1,066 spots since 2020 (#12,142 → #13,208)
  • 5,942 spots since 2015 (#7,266 → #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
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s94#2,109 (1964)#4,378
1970s257#1,963 (1975)#3,829
1980s220#1,981 (1980)#4,299
1990s463#1,940 (1998)#2,889
2000s587#2,174 (2000)#2,848
2010s190#4,645 (2013)#6,741
2020s55#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.

Ragan in 1963

girls
#6,592
5 births · 1 in 385,501 girls
boys
#2,200
14 births · 1 in 145,077 boys

Top girls' names in 1963

  1. #1Lisa56,047
  2. #2Mary41,546
  3. #3Susan33,991
  4. #4Karen32,492
  5. #5Linda27,727
  6. #6Donna25,405
  7. #7Patricia25,374
  8. #8Lori23,899
  9. #9Sandra21,621
  10. #10Cynthia21,589
  11. #6,592Ragan5

Top boys' names in 1963

  1. #1Michael83,771
  2. #2John78,636
  3. #3David78,444
  4. #4James71,294
  5. #5Robert70,007
  6. #6Mark49,342
  7. #7William44,453
  8. #8Richard40,772
  9. #9Thomas35,490
  10. #10Jeffrey31,701
  11. #2,200Ragan14
More about 1963

girls

1,927,507 girls got a published name in 1963; 1 in 385,501 of them was named Ragan, which outranked 14.0% of the 7,661 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ragan
  1. #5,891Zoann6
  2. #5,891Zoeann6
  3. #5,891Zonda6
  4. #6,592Ragan5
  5. #6,592Abagail5
  6. #6,592Abigale5
  7. #6,592Adah5

Tied with 1,069 names at #6,592; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1962
Risers
  1. ↑ 631Zena#1,323 → #692
  2. ↑ 623Zina#992 → #369
  3. ↑ 540Trisha#1,020 → #480
  4. ↑ 457Shirl#1,304 → #847
  5. ↑ 396Glynis#992 → #596
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,195Marnita#727 → #1,922
  2. ↓ 255Velvet#623 → #878
  3. ↓ 235Delphine#904 → #1,139
  4. ↓ 224Rosita#934 → #1,158
  5. ↓ 197Lindy#885 → #1,082

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

boys

2,031,078 boys got a published name in 1963; 1 in 145,077 of them was named Ragan, which outranked 52.4% of the 4,621 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ragan
  1. #2,115Victoria15
  2. #2,115Vinnie15
  3. #2,115Yale15
  4. #2,200Ragan14
  5. #2,200Aden14
  6. #2,200Alen14
  7. #2,200Americo14
  8. #2,300Ahmad13
  9. #2,300Alferd13
  10. #2,300Ambrosio13

Tied with 99 names at #2,200; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1962
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,551Tal#2,364 → #813
  2. ↑ 1,141Jaimie#1,962 → #821
  3. ↑ 540Stoney#1,038 → #498
  4. ↑ 364Pamela#1,311 → #947
  5. ↑ 331Giovanni#1,242 → #911
Fallers
  1. ↓ 324Olin#871 → #1,195
  2. ↓ 295Enoch#984 → #1,279
  3. ↓ 285Rand#953 → #1,238
  4. ↓ 283Vernell#996 → #1,279
  5. ↓ 269Bentley#926 → #1,195

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

See the top 100 for 1963 →