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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 1987
No state had 5 or more boys named Sagan in 1987, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Sagan in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
Top boys' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 91,507 of them was named Sagan, which outranked 67.7% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,122Vy20
- #4,122Walter20
- #4,122Zina20
- #4,283Sagan19
- #4,283Abbe19
- #4,283Albert19
- #4,283Aleida19
- #4,474Aaren18
- #4,474Aeriel18
- #4,474Aleia18
Tied with 190 names at #4,283; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,866,984 boys got a published name in 1987; 1 in 373,397 of them was named Sagan, which outranked 14.7% of the 8,152 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,201 names at #6,951; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.