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Dagan

Boys' name

Variant of Dagon

Dagan has been given to 1,087 babies in the U.S. since 1969. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2003, with 58 recorded.

Babies named Dagan, 2024

1 in 669,000

Dagan over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dagan: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Dagon

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dagan means

Dagan is a variant of Dagon.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Dagan is used in Semitic Mythology.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Dagan → Dagon. The family’s proposed meaning is “grain”, recorded in the naming reference for Dagon.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dagon.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,077 boys were recorded with the name Dagan between 1969 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 58 in 2003; its best national rank was #1,987 in 2003.

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Dagan between 2000 and 2003. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2000; its best national rank was #15,587 in 2000.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Dagan?

Dagan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dagan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dagan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dagans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dagan was born before 2003 — so the typical Dagan is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
44.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,077
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 44.0% of all recorded uses (474).

Is Dagan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2003 (58)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,987
2003

Spellings of Dagan

Dagan is not the most common spelling — Dylan is, with 20.7% against Dagan's 0.05%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Dagan is used

Across 1910–2025, Dagan was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 760,589 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in —
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Indiana1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —
  7. 7Virginia1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dagan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dagan around the world

Where Dagan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2009
    #3,744
    in 2009
  • France
    1998–2014
    #5,524
    in 2014
  • Canada
    1993–2006
    #2,447
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Dagan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,987
2003
Peak year
2003
58 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
1,077
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,587
2000
Peak year
2000
5 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2003
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dagan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

HaganHoganSaganKaganDeganRoganDeaganTeganEganEaganKeiganDaeganDagenTeeganReganKeganMeganTeiganNeganDagoDagonYuganDeeganDugan

Sibling names for Dagan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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