girls:
48 births since 2004
#5668 (1st percentile)
boys:
889 births since 1993
#3700 (19th percentile)
overall:
937 births since 1993
#6802 (12th percentile)
The name Daegan is the #6,802 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 937 recorded births since 1993. This represents the 12.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,700 (19.3% percentile) for all time with 889 births since 1993. For girls, it ranks #5,668 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 48 births since 2004.
Daegan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1993 (1993 for boys and 2004 for girls). Birth data for Daegan is available in 30 out of the 30 years between 1993 and 2022 (30 years for boys and 8 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Daegan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Daegan reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 6.3% percentile (ranked #827) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 28 births per million (ranked 6.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Daegan reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #963) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Daegan".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Daegan is pronounced as DAY-guhn, which has 2 syllables.
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