girls:
583 births since 1974
#5133 (10th percentile)
boys:
15 births since 1973
#4571 (0th percentile)
overall:
598 births since 1973
#7141 (8th percentile)
The name Ragen is the #7,141 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 598 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 7.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,133 (10.2% percentile) for all time with 583 births since 1974. For boys, it ranks #4,571 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 15 births since 1973.
Ragen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (1973 for boys and 1974 for girls). Birth data for Ragen is available in 45 out of the 49 years between 1973 and 2021 (44 years for girls and 3 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 Ragen has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.5% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1974, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1973 to 1973), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (98.3% girls from 1974 to 2021).
For girls, Ragen reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #965) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
For boys, Ragen reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #644) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1998.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ragen".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Ragen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 67.4% confident that Ragen is pronounced as RAY-guhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RAY-juhn, at 18.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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