Ragan
#14,526 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ragan has been given to 2,260 babies in the U.S. since 1963. In 2025 it ranked #14,526 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 78 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 83% girls, 17% boys all-time.
Babies named Ragan, 2025
1 in 553,000
Ragan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Ragan over time
In 2025, Ragan went to 100% girls and 0% 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 Ragan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #14,526
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ragan 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ragan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ragans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ragan was born before 1998 — so the typical Ragan is around 27 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 31.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 40.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,866
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 31.5% of all recorded uses (587).
Is Ragan 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
- −1,387
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,376
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −7,001
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.38×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 7.7%
- Peak was 1998 (78)
- Years since peak
- 27
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.7% average annual change
Spellings of Ragan
Ragan is not the most common spelling — Megan is, with 51.9% against Ragan's 0.22%.
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 Ragan is used
Across 1910–2025, Ragan was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 164,465 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in 50,000
- 2Tennessee1 in 50,000
- 3Alabama1 in 100,000
- 4Georgia1 in 100,000
- 5South Carolina1 in 100,000
- 6Texas1 in 100,000
- 7California1 in —
- 8Florida1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Ragan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ragan around the world
Where Ragan 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 & Wales1999–2009#4,564in 2009
- South Australia1976–1980#634in 1980
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Ragan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Ragan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ragan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.