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Reece vs Reegan

American parents have registered 26,917 Reeces since 1880, against 1,529 Reegans. Reece is still ahead, with 877 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Reece against Reegan, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Reece Reegan

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

Reece has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2012, when Reece had 756 and Reegan had 100.

Side by side

  Reece Reegan
Total US births 26,9171,529
Most in one year 998107
Babies in 2025 877under 5
Estimated living today 25,0001,500
Median age today 1716
Peak year 20012009
Best rank 344th boys2,396th girls
Rank in 2025 460thunranked
First recorded 18801990
Girls / boys 4,949 / 21,9681,178 / 351

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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Reece Reegan
England and Wales 24,4841,094
Scotland 3,17876
Ireland 1,2377

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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