Reghan
Feminine
Reghan takes a surname that a president made familiar, adds two letters that make it look Irish, and hands the result to daughters — all within about a decade of each other.
How old is the name Reghan?
Reghan first appears in US birth records in 1983 — 42 years ago. The typical Reghan alive today was born around 2005, making them about 20 years old. About 900 people named Reghan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Reghan most popular?
Reghan peaked in 2005, reaching #2969 nationally. See the whole 2005 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Reghan
There is a lag between a surname becoming famous and children carrying it, and it is usually about ten years. A president is in the news for eight; the name is everywhere, attached to an adult, and nobody names a baby after a sitting officeholder in any numbers. Then the term ends, the association softens from a person into a sound, and the name starts appearing on birth certificates — often carried by parents who would not have said they were naming a child after anybody. The gh in this spelling is doing different work: it is silent, it comes from Irish names where the letters earn their place, and here it functions purely as a signal that the name has roots somewhere older than it does.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The Irish surname behind the familiar spelling is usually read as descending from a word about a small king or an impulse, and neither reading is settled. A separate name spelled almost the same way belongs to a character in King Lear and is a different word with a different history.
Pronouncing Reghan
RAY-gun
Two syllables, stress at the front. REE-gun is also used for the same spelling, following the older pronunciation of the surname.
Nicknames for Reghan
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
- 1983
- Most girls named
- 200554 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2969reached in 2005
- Change vs 2022
- 0.0%7 in 2024, from 7
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.
Reghan in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ó Riagáin in Irish — related form
Reghans among us
people named Reghan are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Reghan sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is a surname name with a genuine Irish family behind it.
- It works for either child and reads as deliberate.
- The sound is entirely familiar to American ears.
- Reagan, Regan and Raegan are all in use and hers will be written as one of them.
- Two pronunciations are current and she will be asked which.
- The gh is silent and does nothing but make the name look older than it is.
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Frequently asked
- How many Reghans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Reghan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Reghan in 2025?
- Reghan is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Reghan with classmates?
- Reghan will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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