Humanverse

Reggie vs Reghan

American parents have registered 12,827 Reggies since 1880, against 895 Reghans. Reggie is still ahead, with 97 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Reggie against Reghan, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Reggie Reghan

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

Reggie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1906 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2005, when Reggie had 85 and Reghan had 54.

Side by side

  Reggie Reghan
Total US births 12,827895
Most in one year 31854
Babies in 2025 97under 5
Estimated living today 10,000890
Median age today 4720
Peak year 19792005
Best rank 455th boys2,969th girls
Rank in 2025 1,852ndunranked
First recorded 19061983
Girls / boys 551 / 12,276895 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Reggies alive today are over 47; half the Reghans are over 20. That is 27 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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