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Reegan vs Reem

American parents have registered 3,610 Reems since 1880, against 1,529 Reegans. Reem is still ahead, with 138 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Reegan against Reem, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Reegan Reem

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

Of the 57 years in which either name was published, Reem for 52 years and Reegan for 5 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Reegan Reem
Total US births 1,5293,610
Most in one year 107177
Babies in 2025 under 5138
Estimated living today 1,5003,600
Median age today 1615
Peak year 20092024
Best rank 2,396th girls1,302nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,534th
First recorded 19901969
Girls / boys 1,178 / 3513,610 / 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Reegan Reem
England and Wales 1,094961
Scotland 7620
Ireland 718

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: Reegan and Reem.