Regan
Regan reached its high-water mark in 2001 at number 391, and has been recorded 20,053 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 2,276th. About 19,000 Regans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 24.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Regan
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Regan crossed from boys to girls in 1967, and has stayed there for 59 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 92% girls, and in 2025 it was 82%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 79 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
- 20,053
- Estimated living today
- 19,000
- Median age today
- 24
- Peak year
- 2001
- Best rank
- 391st
- Rank in 2025
- 2,276th
- First recorded
- 1920
- Girls / boys
- 16,307 / 3,746
How old the living Regans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 20,053 babies given the name since 1920, about 19,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 4,700 of them are children and 460 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 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
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Regans
- Regan Smith (born 2002)American swimmer
- Regan Poole (born 1998)Welsh association football player
- Regan Gough (born 1996)New Zealand track cyclist
People named Regan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Regan is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Regan is most concentrated in Kansas (2.2×), Nebraska (1.6×), Ohio (1.6×), Iowa (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2001
The most popular girls’ names the year Regan peaked:
Regan elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Regan | 3,801 | 151st |
| New Zealand boys | Regan | 1,182 | 58th |
| England and Wales girls | Regan | 825 | 528th |
| Scotland boys | Regan | 264 | 139th |
| Scotland girls | Regan | 167 | 238th |
| Ireland boys | Regan | 87 | 422nd |
| Ireland girls | Regan | 87 | 437th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Regan | 72 | 190th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Regan | 68 | 176th |
| France boys | Regan | 20 | 4,980th |
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.
Related names
Regan against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.