Meaning not yet researched.
Dagan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,991 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US boys were given it in 2025. It peaked at #1,991 in 2003. No US babies were recorded with the name Dagan in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US boys in 2025; it peaked at #1,991 in 2003.
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Dagan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,991 in 2003 · most boys in one year: 58 (2003).
Fewer than five US boys were named Dagan in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #1,991, reached in 2003. That year also had the most boys given the name: 58. For comparison, it was #6,409 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dagan in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 5 babies. In all, 1,087 US babies have been given the name, 0.9% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 484 babies named Dagan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 78 US boys were named Dagan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 17.
Rarer spellings such as Daegan, Dagen and Dagon are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Daegan (952), Dagen (390), Dagon (184), Daegen (82), Daegon (77), Daigan (35), Daguan (15), Daygan (12), Daigen (6), Daygen (6), Daiguan (5), Daigon (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Dagan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | — | — | 5 | #12,722 |
| 2023 | — | — | 8 | #9,094 |
| 2021 | — | — | 8 | #8,992 |
| 2020 | — | — | 13 | #6,371 |
| 2019 | — | — | 5 | #12,556 |
| 2018 | — | — | 12 | #6,782 |
| 2017 | — | — | 10 | #7,695 |
| 2016 | — | — | 17 | #5,362 |
| 2015 | — | — | 13 | #6,409 |
| 2014 | — | — | 17 | #5,298 |
| 2013 | — | — | 14 | #5,986 |
| 2012 | — | — | 22 | #4,421 |
| 2011 | — | — | 32 | #3,380 |
| 2010 | — | — | 19 | #4,877 |
| 2009 | — | — | 32 | #3,416 |
| 2008 | — | — | 45 | #2,722 |
| 2007 | — | — | 55 | #2,343 |
| 2006 | — | — | 53 | #2,353 |
| 2005 | — | — | 55 | #2,189 |
| 2004 | — | — | 53 | #2,196 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,336 | 58 | #1,991 |
| 2002 | — | — | 49 | #2,161 |
| 2001 | — | — | 38 | #2,534 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,594 | 36 | #2,582 |
| 1999 | — | — | 30 | #2,809 |
| 1998 | — | — | 35 | #2,465 |
| 1997 | — | — | 27 | #2,838 |
| 1996 | — | — | 26 | #2,851 |
| 1995 | — | — | 18 | #3,580 |
| 1994 | — | — | 17 | #3,782 |
| 1993 | — | — | 19 | #3,391 |
| 1992 | — | — | 13 | #4,368 |
| 1991 | — | — | 19 | #3,240 |
| 1990 | — | — | 11 | #4,728 |
| 1987 | — | — | 11 | #4,020 |
| 1986 | — | — | 6 | #6,092 |
| 1985 | — | — | 14 | #3,245 |
| 1984 | — | — | 12 | #3,501 |
| 1983 | — | — | 11 | #3,666 |
| 1982 | — | — | 9 | #4,296 |
| 1981 | — | — | 12 | #3,458 |
| 1980 | — | — | 10 | #3,899 |
| 1979 | — | — | 18 | #2,602 |
| 1978 | — | — | 14 | #2,955 |
| 1977 | — | — | 12 | #3,233 |
| 1976 | — | — | 13 | #2,975 |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #4,020 |
| 1974 | — | — | 16 | #2,483 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,148 |
| 1971 | — | — | 9 | #3,416 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,339 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,518 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).