Recorded 1913–2025 · United States
Reagan was most popular in 2012, when 3,322 American babies were given the name — ranking #201 that year. In 2025 it ranked #495, with 1,342 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 73,580 people named Reagan.
Reagan first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1913, which makes it about 112 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 104 of the 113 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 73,580 American births named Reagan between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 72,560 are estimated to be alive today.
1,342 American babies were named Reagan in 2025, ranking #495 that year.
Reagan is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 1,827 births a year, against 3,158 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -42% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Reagan is mostly a girl’s name — 89.3% of the 73,580 Americans given it were girls and 10.7% were boys. It changed hands: since 1973 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 93% girls and 7% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 72,560 Americans named Reagan are alive today — 99% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 14 years old, and half are between 9 and 21. That is a narrow band because Reagan is a young name — it only became common recently, so almost everyone carrying it is still a child or a young adult.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org