Kagan
#12,923 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kagan has been given to 724 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #12,923 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 36 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% boys, 10% girls all-time.
Babies named Kagan, 2025
1 in 663,000
Kagan over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Kagan over time
In 2025, Kagan went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Kagan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #12,923
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kagan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kagan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kagans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kagan was born before 2005 — so the typical Kagan is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 39.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 66.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 651
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 39.9% of all recorded uses (260).
Is Kagan 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −7,095
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −6,414
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.38×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 13.9%
- Peak was 2001 (36)
- Years since peak
- 24
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.1% average annual change
Spellings of Kagan
Kagan is not the most common spelling — Logan is, with 33.6% against Kagan's 0.06%.
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 Kagan is used
Across 1910–2025, Kagan was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 530,538 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 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. Kagan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kagan around the world
Where Kagan 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 & Wales1996–2016#4,810in 2016
- France2007–2010#5,999in 2010
- South Australia1993–2010#754in 2010
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kagan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Kagan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kagan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.