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
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 63 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 748since 1987
Sagan 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 | #11,932 | 7 | #5,399 | 17 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #4,433 | 23 |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 | #8,921 | 8 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | #3,344 | 35 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | #2,918 | 42 |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 | #3,570 | 30 |
| 2019 | #8,597 | 12 | #3,201 | 36 |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 | #2,189 | 63 |
| 2017 | #5,191 | 25 | #2,345 | 55 |
| 2016 | #5,130 | 26 | #2,477 | 51 |
| 2015 | #5,458 | 24 | #2,328 | 56 |
| 2014 | #6,713 | 18 | #2,985 | 38 |
| 2013 | #7,031 | 17 | #2,623 | 45 |
| 2012 | #9,109 | 12 | #3,894 | 26 |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 | #3,434 | 31 |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #3,812 | 27 |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #5,554 | 16 |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 | #5,487 | 16 |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | #7,590 | 10 |
| 2006 | #11,417 | 9 | #6,904 | 11 |
| 2005 | — | #5,875 | 13 | |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #6,520 | 11 |
| 2003 | — | #6,715 | 10 | |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #6,522 | 10 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #5,390 | 13 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | #4,204 | 18 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | #5,317 | 12 |
| 1998 | — | #4,413 | 15 | |
| 1997 | — | #9,265 | 5 | |
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| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | — | |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 | — | |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 | — | |
| 1989 | #5,049 | 17 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,891 | 65 | — | |
| 1987 | #4,283 | 19 | #6,951 | 5 |
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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 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#2,285 · 1 in 29,175
Best ever in a state: #932 in Tennessee, 2017.
Show every state
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| Texas | #2,285 | 6 | 1 in 29,175 |
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See more about Sagan
- 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)
- Debuted 1987
- Peaked 2018 at #2,189 (63 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 57.2% of all boys named Sagan (428) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2023, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1980s | 5 | #6,951 (1987) | #6,951 |
| 1990s | 32 | #4,413 (1998) | #6,332 |
| 2000s | 128 | #4,204 (2000) | #6,076 |
| 2010s | 428 | #2,189 (2018) | #2,929 |
| 2020s | 155 | #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.
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