Meaning not yet researched.
Regan: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 80 in 2025. Its best rank was #391 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #391 in 2001; #2,295 in 2025. About 82% of babies named Regan in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,295 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #391.
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Regan: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 80 girls in 2025. Peak: #391 in 2001 · most girls in one year: 747 (2001).
In 2025, 80 US girls were named Regan, making it the 2,295th most common girls’ name of the year, up 65 places from #2,360 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 78 girls named Regan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #391, reached in 2001. That year also had the most girls given the name: 747. For comparison, it was #1,024 in 2015 and #3,020 in 1950.
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Regan, making it the 5,559th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,507 places from #4,052 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 27 boys named Regan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #822, reached in 1964. The most boys given the name in a single year was 89, in 1979. For comparison, it was #2,518 in 2015 and #1,360 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Regan in 81 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1920 with 5 babies. In all, 20,053 US babies have been given the name, 81% of them girls and 19% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 6,697 babies named Regan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,303 US girls were named Regan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 216. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,091 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Regan ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #1,571 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Reagan (73,580 babies since 1880), Reegan (1,529 babies since 1880) and Regine (1,388 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Reganne, Regene and Region 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: Reganne (225), Regene (94), Region (30).
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 Regan 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,571 | #706 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,651 | #730 |
| Texas | 5 | #3,690 | #2,030 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 80 | #2,295 | 17 | #5,559 |
| 2024 | 78 | #2,360 | 27 | #4,052 |
| 2023 | 77 | #2,375 | 30 | #3,783 |
| 2022 | 121 | #1,730 | 22 | #4,666 |
| 2021 | 118 | #1,746 | 29 | #3,796 |
| 2020 | 117 | #1,725 | 28 | #3,788 |
| 2019 | 147 | #1,491 | 35 | #3,327 |
| 2018 | 160 | #1,402 | 37 | #3,157 |
| 2017 | 189 | #1,256 | 56 | #2,336 |
| 2016 | 216 | #1,170 | 46 | #2,679 |
| 2015 | 262 | #1,024 | 50 | #2,518 |
| 2014 | 238 | #1,078 | 52 | #2,455 |
| 2013 | 294 | #880 | 45 | #2,659 |
| 2012 | 327 | #824 | 58 | #2,260 |
| 2011 | 277 | #933 | 61 | #2,166 |
| 2010 | 390 | #723 | 54 | #2,369 |
| 2009 | 401 | #726 | 60 | #2,223 |
| 2008 | 441 | #690 | 73 | #1,963 |
| 2007 | 558 | #548 | 81 | #1,809 |
| 2006 | 518 | #568 | 61 | #2,142 |
| 2005 | 653 | #469 | 58 | #2,123 |
| 2004 | 726 | #420 | 64 | #1,927 |
| 2003 | 669 | #448 | 55 | #2,074 |
| 2002 | 737 | #398 | 61 | #1,863 |
| 2001 | 747 | #391 | 63 | #1,792 |
| 2000 | 592 | #469 | 79 | #1,536 |
| 1999 | 611 | #440 | 59 | #1,745 |
| 1998 | 615 | #431 | 57 | #1,786 |
| 1997 | 564 | #450 | 75 | #1,451 |
| 1996 | 487 | #491 | 54 | #1,733 |
| 1995 | 397 | #579 | 52 | #1,728 |
| 1994 | 365 | #612 | 68 | #1,432 |
| 1993 | 285 | #739 | 64 | #1,468 |
| 1992 | 220 | #896 | 42 | #1,948 |
| 1991 | 205 | #938 | 49 | #1,691 |
| 1990 | 163 | #1,087 | 50 | #1,655 |
| 1989 | 137 | #1,193 | 45 | #1,728 |
| 1988 | 116 | #1,266 | 35 | #1,903 |
| 1987 | 97 | #1,393 | 39 | #1,728 |
| 1986 | 101 | #1,322 | 23 | #2,413 |
| 1985 | 104 | #1,294 | 33 | #1,829 |
| 1984 | 120 | #1,142 | 30 | #1,875 |
| 1983 | 88 | #1,367 | 29 | #1,894 |
| 1982 | 82 | #1,469 | 32 | #1,806 |
| 1981 | 147 | #995 | 37 | #1,626 |
| 1980 | 281 | #653 | 80 | #1,015 |
| 1979 | 212 | #761 | 89 | #934 |
| 1978 | 189 | #794 | 78 | #981 |
| 1977 | 195 | #777 | 57 | #1,173 |
| 1976 | 169 | #824 | 49 | #1,256 |
| 1975 | 220 | #681 | 76 | #943 |
| 1974 | 188 | #752 | 37 | #1,435 |
| 1973 | 109 | #1,063 | 43 | #1,265 |
| 1972 | 72 | #1,391 | 29 | #1,634 |
| 1971 | 35 | #2,288 | 30 | #1,628 |
| 1970 | 36 | #2,229 | 31 | #1,540 |
| 1969 | 39 | #2,019 | 38 | #1,296 |
| 1968 | 30 | #2,233 | 27 | #1,537 |
| 1967 | 42 | #1,814 | 40 | #1,195 |
| 1966 | 47 | #1,641 | 76 | #840 |
| 1965 | 46 | #1,664 | 75 | #853 |
| 1964 | 50 | #1,627 | 85 | #822 |
| 1963 | 44 | #1,748 | 60 | #980 |
| 1962 | 31 | #2,148 | 54 | #1,044 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,156 | 69 | #924 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,645 | 59 | #1,005 |
| 1959 | 19 | #2,735 | 36 | #1,316 |
| 1958 | 16 | #3,056 | 29 | #1,471 |
| 1957 | 16 | #3,008 | 23 | #1,710 |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,305 | 37 | #1,281 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,531 | 26 | #1,531 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,983 | 29 | #1,427 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,233 | 40 | #1,181 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,653 | 30 | #1,397 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,661 | 32 | #1,325 |
| 1950 | 13 | #3,020 | 29 | #1,360 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,962 | 27 | #1,424 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,940 | 18 | #1,805 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,651 | 20 | #1,724 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,841 | 8 | #2,859 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,835 |
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).