Reagan
Reagan reached its high-water mark in 2016 at number 98, and has been recorded 73,580 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 248th. About 73,000 Reagans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 13.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Reagan boys named Reagan
Girls and boys called Reagan
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Reagan crossed from boys to girls in 1973, and has stayed there for 53 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 94% girls, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 64 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 73,580
- Estimated living today
- 73,000
- Median age today
- 13
- Peak year
- 2016
- Best rank
- 98th
- Rank in 2025
- 248th
- First recorded
- 1913
- Girls / boys
- 65,739 / 7,841
How old the living Reagans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 73,580 babies given the name since 1913, about 73,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 48,000 of them are children and 210 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Anglicized from Gaelic Ó Riagáin (“descendant of Riagán”), a personal name possibly derived from ríodhgach (“impulsive, furious”), an alternative form of ríogach.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Reagans
- Reagan Gomez-Preston (born 1980)American actress
People named Reagan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Reagan is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Reagan is most concentrated in Utah (1.9×), Nevada (1.8×), Texas (1.7×), Virginia (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2016
The most popular girls’ names the year Reagan peaked:
Reagan elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Reagan | 1,397 | 468th |
| England and Wales girls | Reagan | 429 | 1,367th |
| Scotland boys | Reagan | 143 | 213th |
| Scotland girls | Reagan | 92 | 337th |
| Ireland girls | Reagan | 25 | 747th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Reagan | 24 | 267th |
| Ireland boys | Reagan | 23 | 610th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Reagan | 11 | 316th |
| France boys | Reagan | 10 | 6,078th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Reagan among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Reagan | 6 | 6 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Reagan against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.