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Raegan vs Raelee

American parents have registered 25,492 Raegans since 1880, against 1,914 Raelees. Raegan is still ahead, with 594 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Raegan against Raelee, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Raegan Raelee

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Raegan has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1956 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1969, when Raegan had 10 and Raelee had 5.

Side by side

  Raegan Raelee
Total US births 25,4921,914
Most in one year 1,417104
Babies in 2025 59459
Estimated living today 25,0001,900
Median age today 1211
Peak year 20192015
Best rank 219th girls1,937th girls
Rank in 2025 505th2,859th
First recorded 19561969
Girls / boys 25,214 / 2781,914 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Raegan and Raelee.