girls:
1.9k births since 1963
#3937 (31st percentile)
boys:
394 births since 1923
#4192 (9th percentile)
overall:
2.2k births since 1923
#5549 (28th percentile)
The name Ragan is the #5,549 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,246 recorded births since 1923. This represents the 28.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 28.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,937 (31.1% percentile) for all time with 1,852 births since 1963. For boys, it ranks #4,192 (8.5% percentile) for all time with 394 births since 1923.
Ragan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1923 (1923 for boys and 1963 for girls). Birth data for Ragan is available in 64 out of the 101 years between 1923 and 2023 (60 years for girls and 48 years for boys). 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 Ragan has been given predominantly to girls, with 82.5% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Ragan were girls. Interestingly, until around 1964, the name was more popular for boys (89.4% boys from 1923 to 1963), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (84.0% girls from 1964 to 2023).
For girls, Ragan reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 8.4% percentile (ranked #801) with 40 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 40 births per million (ranked 8.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2002, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Ragan ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 8.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Ragan reached its peak popularity in 1965, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #634) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ragan".
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