Negan
#4,654 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Negan has been given to 294 babies in the U.S. since 2016. In 2025 it ranked #4,654 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 44 recorded.
Babies named Negan, 2025
1 in 151,000
Negan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Negan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 151,000
- 22 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 77,600
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,654
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 104,451 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Negan 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 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Negan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Negans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Negan was born before 2020 — so the typical Negan is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 54.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 288
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 54.9% of all recorded uses (158).
Is Negan 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
- +932
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −664
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 50.0%
- Peak was 2017 (44)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.0% average annual change
Spellings of Negan
Negan is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 25.4% against Negan's 0.02%.
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 Negan is used
Across 1910–2025, Negan was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,303,385 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Negan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Negan around the world
Where Negan 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 & Wales2016–2024#2,444in 2024
- Scotland2022–2022#703in 2022
- France2017–2025#3,698in 2025
- Canada2017–2023#2,436in 2023
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Negan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Negan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Negan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.