Raegan
Feminine
Raegan is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 25,214 girls against 278 boys since 1880.
Raegan is one of the American spellings of the Irish surname behind Ó Riagáin, a family name from the south of Ireland that crossed the Atlantic and turned into a first name. The extra 'a' does nothing to the sound — it still lands as two clean syllables with a long A at the front — and it comes with Rae already built in.
How old is the name Raegan?
Raegan first appears in US birth records in 1963 — 62 years ago. The typical Raegan is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 25,000 people named Raegan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Raegan most popular?
Raegan peaked in 2019, reaching #219 nationally. Today it ranks #505, 286 places below that high. See the whole 2019 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Riagán to Raegan
The story of Raegan
The name begins as Riagán, an early Irish personal name, which gave the surname Ó Riagáin — anglicized as O'Regan, Regan and Reagan, long associated with counties Cork, Limerick and Meath. Irish emigration carried the surname across the United States in the nineteenth century, where, like Ryan, Kennedy and Quinn, it eventually crossed over into use as a first name. Raegan is one of several American respellings of that surname-name, alongside Reagan, Regan and Ragan; the ae digraph makes the long A unmissable on paper. Its life as a girl's name in the US is recent, and the whole family of spellings rose and eased back together.
Meaningscholars disagree
from the Irish personal name Riagán, most often read as 'little king'
Two readings compete. The most widely repeated links Riagán to Irish rí, 'king', giving 'little king' or 'descendant of the king'. Others connect it to a root meaning 'impulsive' or 'fierce'. Neither has won; the name is old enough that its first element is genuinely obscure.
How the name formed
- Riagán
- Ó Riagáin
- Regan
- Reagan
- Raegan
Related forms: Riagán · Ó Riagáin · Reagan · Regan · Ragan · Raegen
Pronouncing Raegan
RAY-gən
Stress on the first syllable, with the second reduced to something close to 'gun'. The related spelling Regan is sometimes said REE-gan, especially in Shakespeare; Raegan's ae signals the long A and largely prevents that.
Nicknames for Raegan
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1963
- Most girls named
- 20191,406 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #219reached in 2019
- Change vs 2024
- −13.8%589 in 2025, from 683
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Raegan in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Riagán in Irish — related form
- Ó Riagáin in Irish — related form
- Reagan in English — spelling variant
- Regan in English — spelling variant
- Ragan in English — spelling variant
- Raegen in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Raegans among us
people named Raegan are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 2,729 born in 2025 was named Raegan
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Macy test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Raegan's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Macy climbed just as high around 2003, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Macy's path sketches the road Raegan is walking now.
Raegan sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Raegan is headed
Raegan is easing off slowly — about 24% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Raegan beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Raegan in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Reads correctly on sight for English speakers — the ae spelling points clearly to the long A.
- Comes with Rae, a short form that also stands alone as a full given name.
- Sits on a surname with a documented Irish line going back to the personal name Riagán.
- Familiar in sound without being repeated across a classroom; most bearers grow up as the only one at school.
- Part of a wider family of accepted spellings — Reagan, Regan, Ragan — so the name itself is well known even where this version is not.
- Reagan is the spelling most people reach for first. Expect a lifetime of gentle corrections: spelling it out on forms, and finding it written the other way on coffee cups and class lists.
- The surname is strongly attached to Ronald Reagan in American ears, which for some families is a plus and for others a reason to pause. The effect fades with the respelling but does not disappear.
- In Shakespeare's King Lear, Regan is one of the treacherous daughters — a faint literary shadow that most people will not make, though English teachers may.
- The name's rise is recent and now easing, so it reads as contemporary rather than inherited; it may end up mildly dating the era a child was born in.
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Frequently asked
- How many Raegans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 25,000 people named Raegan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Raegan in 2025?
- Raegan ranks #505 among US girl names in 2025, with 589 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Raegan?
- About 1 in every 2,729 US girls born in 2025 was named Raegan — 589 in all.
- Will my child share the name Raegan with classmates?
- Raegan will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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