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Ragnar: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 52 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,723 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,723 in 2023; #2,561 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ragnar in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,561 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,723.
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Ragnar: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 52 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,723 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 97 (2023).
In 2025, 52 US boys were named Ragnar, making it the 2,561st most common boys’ name of the year, down 280 places from #2,281 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 63 boys named Ragnar in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,723, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 97. For comparison, it was #3,492 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ragnar in 20 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 5 babies. In all, 787 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 456 babies named Ragnar.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 683 US boys were named Ragnar; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 97. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,848 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ragnar ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #1,073 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,073 | — |
| California | 5 | #2,721 | #2,004 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 52 | #2,561 |
| 2024 | — | — | 63 | #2,281 |
| 2023 | — | — | 97 | #1,723 |
| 2022 | — | — | 88 | #1,834 |
| 2021 | — | — | 86 | #1,822 |
| 2020 | — | — | 70 | #2,043 |
| 2019 | — | — | 58 | #2,356 |
| 2018 | — | — | 72 | #2,023 |
| 2017 | — | — | 56 | #2,335 |
| 2016 | — | — | 41 | #2,923 |
| 2015 | — | — | 32 | #3,492 |
| 2014 | — | — | 19 | #5,018 |
| 2013 | — | — | 9 | #8,606 |
| 2011 | — | — | 5 | #13,851 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,692 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,474 |
| 1918 | — | — | 6 | #4,074 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,479 |
| 1916 | — | — | 11 | #2,506 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #4,276 |
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).