Meaning not yet researched.
Reagan: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,244 in 2025. Its best rank was #97 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #97 in 2012; #248 in 2025. About 93% of babies named Reagan in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#248 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #97.
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Reagan: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,244 girls in 2025. Peak: #97 in 2012 · most girls in one year: 3,097 (2016).
In 2025, 1,244 US girls were named Reagan, making it the 248th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4 places from #244 in 2024. That is 53 fewer than the 1,297 girls named Reagan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #97, reached in 2012. The most girls given the name in a single year was 3,097, in 2016. For comparison, it was #99 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 98 US boys were named Reagan, making it the 1,687th most common boys’ name of the year, down 107 places from #1,580 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 110 boys named Reagan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #596, reached in 2004. That year also had the most boys given the name: 366. For comparison, it was #995 in 2015 and #1,605 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Reagan in 104 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 5 babies. In all, 73,580 US babies have been given the name, 89% of them girls and 11% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 30,965 babies named Reagan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 22,548 US girls were named Reagan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 3,097. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,292 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Reagan ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #140 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Regan (20,053 babies since 1880) and Reegan (1,529 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Reagen, Reygan and Reigan 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Reagen (714), Reygan (399), Reigan (320), Reagyn (220), Reagann (103), Reagin (41), Regann (38), Reagon (25), Regen (16), Reaganne (10), Rehgan (10), Regin (7), and more.
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 Reagan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 8 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 27 | #140 | #73 |
| Montana | 7 | #163 | #138 |
| New Hampshire | 8 | #169 | #145 |
| Idaho | 13 | #170 | #210 |
| Wisconsin | 32 | #170 | #111 |
| Iowa | 18 | #182 | #94 |
| Tennessee | 42 | #183 | #56 |
| North Dakota | 6 | #188 | #109 |
| Ohio | 58 | #191 | #62 |
| Virginia | 42 | #199 | #53 |
| Maine | 6 | #204 | #213 |
| Colorado | 30 | #205 | #90 |
| Nevada | 13 | #211 | #104 |
| Connecticut | 16 | #217 | #171 |
| Kentucky | 21 | #224 | #64 |
| Georgia | 47 | #228 | #72 |
| Illinois | 45 | #228 | #150 |
| Maryland | 23 | #231 | #72 |
| Minnesota | 25 | #231 | #124 |
| Pennsylvania | 49 | #233 | #85 |
| Missouri | 27 | #235 | #92 |
| South Carolina | 21 | #242 | #50 |
| Arkansas | 13 | #245 | #99 |
| North Carolina | 45 | #246 | #80 |
| Utah | 18 | #257 | #95 |
| Massachusetts | 23 | #258 | #152 |
| New Jersey | 31 | #272 | #134 |
| Indiana | 26 | #277 | #58 |
| Michigan | 32 | #280 | #100 |
| Florida | 66 | #288 | #122 |
| New Mexico | 6 | #290 | #134 |
| Arizona | 25 | #291 | #93 |
| Texas | 118 | #295 | #118 |
| Washington | 25 | #299 | #118 |
| West Virginia | 6 | #299 | #52 |
| New York | 55 | #309 | #170 |
| California | 105 | #313 | #164 |
| Kansas | 11 | #315 | #74 |
| Alabama | 15 | #341 | #100 |
| Nebraska | 6 | #383 | #101 |
| Oregon | 9 | #425 | #92 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #432 | #98 |
| Louisiana | 9 | #525 | #127 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,244 | #248 | 98 | #1,687 |
| 2024 | 1,297 | #244 | 110 | #1,580 |
| 2023 | 1,728 | #168 | 115 | #1,535 |
| 2022 | 1,988 | #147 | 145 | #1,306 |
| 2021 | 2,242 | #126 | 166 | #1,186 |
| 2020 | 2,373 | #114 | 160 | #1,198 |
| 2019 | 2,754 | #102 | 196 | #1,050 |
| 2018 | 2,820 | #107 | 202 | #1,021 |
| 2017 | 3,005 | #98 | 213 | #973 |
| 2016 | 3,097 | #98 | 204 | #1,004 |
| 2015 | 3,061 | #99 | 207 | #995 |
| 2014 | 2,903 | #106 | 206 | #1,001 |
| 2013 | 3,040 | #104 | 209 | #960 |
| 2012 | 3,088 | #97 | 234 | #895 |
| 2011 | 2,611 | #122 | 232 | #891 |
| 2010 | 2,480 | #127 | 203 | #974 |
| 2009 | 2,540 | #127 | 211 | #957 |
| 2008 | 2,385 | #143 | 204 | #978 |
| 2007 | 2,261 | #156 | 247 | #854 |
| 2006 | 2,238 | #156 | 260 | #793 |
| 2005 | 2,425 | #139 | 299 | #692 |
| 2004 | 2,269 | #145 | 366 | #596 |
| 2003 | 1,657 | #201 | 200 | #866 |
| 2002 | 1,624 | #199 | 223 | #776 |
| 2001 | 1,445 | #220 | 235 | #742 |
| 2000 | 1,131 | #286 | 180 | #879 |
| 1999 | 865 | #348 | 190 | #806 |
| 1998 | 889 | #333 | 153 | #926 |
| 1997 | 695 | #381 | 166 | #856 |
| 1996 | 567 | #446 | 140 | #933 |
| 1995 | 399 | #576 | 120 | #1,015 |
| 1994 | 298 | #705 | 85 | #1,273 |
| 1993 | 199 | #951 | 74 | #1,330 |
| 1992 | 140 | #1,244 | 49 | #1,744 |
| 1991 | 124 | #1,332 | 46 | #1,763 |
| 1990 | 88 | #1,684 | 52 | #1,608 |
| 1989 | 81 | #1,697 | 42 | #1,823 |
| 1988 | 72 | #1,766 | 44 | #1,638 |
| 1987 | 59 | #1,939 | 38 | #1,752 |
| 1986 | 54 | #2,018 | 32 | #1,909 |
| 1985 | 59 | #1,896 | 35 | #1,755 |
| 1984 | 59 | #1,827 | 28 | #1,966 |
| 1983 | 57 | #1,852 | 30 | #1,854 |
| 1982 | 55 | #1,943 | 31 | #1,845 |
| 1981 | 110 | #1,199 | 50 | #1,326 |
| 1980 | 161 | #932 | 58 | #1,212 |
| 1979 | 139 | #1,017 | 45 | #1,405 |
| 1978 | 167 | #880 | 53 | #1,236 |
| 1977 | 146 | #951 | 55 | #1,196 |
| 1976 | 110 | #1,102 | 27 | #1,861 |
| 1975 | 133 | #950 | 38 | #1,447 |
| 1974 | 70 | #1,443 | 35 | #1,497 |
| 1973 | 52 | #1,726 | 31 | #1,577 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,250 | 24 | #1,861 |
| 1971 | 23 | #3,038 | 35 | #1,458 |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,281 | 32 | #1,516 |
| 1969 | 23 | #2,824 | 29 | #1,521 |
| 1968 | 19 | #3,032 | 17 | #2,016 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,792 | 29 | #1,438 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,366 | 27 | #1,506 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,141 | 24 | #1,618 |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,727 | 25 | #1,604 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,976 | 34 | #1,351 |
| 1962 | — | — | 22 | #1,746 |
| 1961 | — | — | 9 | #3,052 |
| 1960 | — | — | 17 | #2,023 |
| 1959 | — | — | 14 | #2,276 |
| 1958 | — | — | 22 | #1,716 |
| 1957 | — | — | 21 | #1,782 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,211 | 14 | #2,241 |
| 1955 | — | — | 15 | #2,116 |
| 1954 | — | — | 17 | #1,942 |
| 1953 | — | — | 22 | #1,668 |
| 1952 | — | — | 22 | #1,653 |
| 1951 | — | — | 25 | #1,511 |
| 1950 | — | — | 22 | #1,605 |
| 1949 | — | — | 18 | #1,809 |
| 1948 | — | — | 18 | #1,804 |
| 1947 | — | — | 13 | #2,231 |
| 1946 | — | — | 16 | #1,871 |
| 1945 | — | — | 12 | #2,106 |
| 1944 | — | — | 10 | #2,435 |
| 1943 | — | — | 14 | #2,056 |
| 1942 | — | — | 13 | #2,121 |
| 1941 | — | — | 7 | #3,079 |
| 1940 | — | — | 7 | #3,073 |
| 1939 | — | — | 6 | #3,413 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,929 |
| 1937 | — | — | 7 | #3,116 |
| 1932 | — | — | 6 | #3,694 |
| 1931 | — | — | 9 | #2,834 |
| 1930 | — | — | 8 | #3,234 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,430 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #4,105 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,782 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #4,217 |
| 1921 | — | — | 9 | #3,170 |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #4,181 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,671 |
| 1918 | — | — | 8 | #3,308 |
| 1917 | — | — | 10 | #2,693 |
| 1916 | — | — | 10 | #2,692 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #4,281 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #3,174 |
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).