Meaning not yet researched.
Sagan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,206 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,206 in 2018; #5,572 in 2025. About 71% of babies named Sagan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,572 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #2,206.
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Sagan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,206 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 63 (2018).
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Sagan, making it the 5,572nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,030 places from #4,542 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 23 boys named Sagan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,206, reached in 2018. That year also had the most boys given the name: 63. For comparison, it was #2,348 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Sagan, making it the 12,945th most common girls’ name of the year, up 277 places from #13,222 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 7 girls named Sagan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,908, reached in 1988. That year also had the most girls given the name: 65. For comparison, it was #5,633 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sagan in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1987 with 24 babies. In all, 1,176 US babies have been given the name, 36% of them girls and 64% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 600 babies named Sagan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 360 US boys were named Sagan; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 63. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Sagen, Zagan and Saegan are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Sagen (48), Zagan (32), Saegan (20), Sagine (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 Sagan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,945 | 17 | #5,572 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,222 | 23 | #4,542 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,627 | 8 | #9,593 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,085 | 35 | #3,399 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,893 | 42 | #2,963 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,437 | 30 | #3,638 |
| 2019 | 12 | #9,021 | 36 | #3,246 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,198 | 63 | #2,206 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,311 | 55 | #2,379 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,259 | 51 | #2,509 |
| 2015 | 24 | #5,633 | 56 | #2,348 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,938 | 38 | #3,026 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,320 | 45 | #2,662 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,609 | 26 | #3,984 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,618 | 31 | #3,498 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,586 | 27 | #3,881 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,884 | 16 | #5,761 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,445 | 16 | #5,721 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,688 | 10 | #8,061 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,232 | 11 | #7,334 |
| 2005 | — | — | 13 | #6,154 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,529 | 11 | #6,891 |
| 2003 | — | — | 10 | #7,144 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,571 | 10 | #6,955 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,958 | 13 | #5,613 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,868 | 18 | #4,350 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,067 | 12 | #5,593 |
| 1998 | — | — | 15 | #4,604 |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #10,526 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,047 | — | — |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,462 | — | — |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,751 | — | — |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,229 | — | — |
| 1988 | 65 | #1,908 | — | — |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,435 | 5 | #7,921 |
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).