Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Reagan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Reagan” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Reagan” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Reagan” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Reagan” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Reagan” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Reagan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Reagan” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1913 5 0.000004397 5 -100%
1915 5 0.000002729 5 -100%
1916 10 0.00000517 10 -100%
1917 10 0.000004983 10 -100%
1918 8 0.000003685 8 -100%
1919 5 0.000002369 5 -100%
1920 6 0.000002652 6 -100%
1921 9 0.000003855 9 -100%
1922 6 0.000002621 6 -100%
1924 7 0.000002939 7 -100%
1927 6 0.000002587 6 -100%
1929 5 0.000002281 5 -100%
1930 8 0.000003598 8 -100%
1931 9 0.000004277 9 -100%
1932 6 0.000002842 6 -100%
1937 7 0.000003285 7 -100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 -100%
1939 6 0.000002723 6 -100%
1940 7 0.00000304 7 -100%
1941 7 0.000002873 7 -100%
1942 13 0.000004759 13 -100%
1943 14 0.00000496 14 -100%
1944 10 0.000003717 10 -100%
1945 12 0.000004523 12 -100%
1946 16 0.000005007 16 -100%
1947 13 0.000003609 13 -100%
1948 18 0.000005214 18 -100%
1949 18 0.000005165 18 -100%
1950 22 0.00000628 22 -100%
1951 25 0.000006787 25 -100%
1952 22 0.000005793 22 -100%
1953 22 0.000005709 22 -100%
1954 17 0.000004271 17 -100%
1955 15 0.000003736 15 -100%
1956 21 0.000005093 7 14 -33%
1957 21 0.000004997 21 -100%
1958 22 0.000005322 22 -100%
1959 14 0.000003367 14 -100%
1960 17 0.000004093 17 -100%
1961 9 0.000002173 9 -100%
1962 22 0.000005452 22 -100%
1963 46 0.000011621 12 34 -48%
1964 47 0.00001209 22 25 -6%
1965 35 0.000009654 11 24 -37%
1966 42 0.000012084 15 27 -29%
1967 42 0.000012372 13 29 -38%
1968 36 0.000010656 19 17 6%
1969 52 0.000014963 23 29 -12%
1970 52 0.000014418 20 32 -23%
1971 58 0.000016898 23 35 -21%
1972 44 0.000013999 20 24 -9%
1973 83 0.000027512 52 31 25%
1974 105 0.000034539 70 35 33%
1975 171 0.000056634 133 38 56%
1976 137 0.00004515 110 27 61%
1977 201 0.000063277 146 55 45%
1978 220 0.000069316 167 53 52%
1979 184 0.000055305 139 45 51%
1980 219 0.00006358 161 58 47%
1981 160 0.000046251 110 50 38%
1982 86 0.000024516 55 31 28%
1983 88 0.000025409 57 31 30%
1984 88 0.000025224 60 28 36%
1985 94 0.000026337 59 35 26%
1986 86 0.000024177 54 32 26%
1987 97 0.000026902 59 38 22%
1988 116 0.000031393 72 44 24%
1989 123 0.000031994 81 42 32%
1990 140 0.000035421 88 52 26%
1991 170 0.000043643 124 46 46%
1992 189 0.000049202 140 49 48%
1993 273 0.000072408 199 74 46%
1994 383 0.000103022 298 85 56%
1995 519 0.00014172 399 120 54%
1996 707 0.000193848 567 140 60%
1997 861 0.000237468 695 166 61%
1998 1042 0.00028329 889 153 71%
1999 1055 0.000285609 865 190 64%
2000 1311 0.000346834 1131 180 73%
2001 1680 0.000448791 1445 235 72%
2002 1847 0.000494076 1624 223 76%
2003 1857 0.000488386 1657 200 78%
2004 2635 0.000689624 2269 366 72%
2005 2724 0.000708481 2425 299 78%
2006 2498 0.000631416 2238 260 79%
2007 2508 0.000627363 2261 247 80%
2008 2589 0.000658667 2385 204 84%
2009 2751 0.000720124 2540 211 85%
2010 2683 0.000725971 2480 203 85%
2011 2843 0.000777245 2611 232 84%
2012 3322 0.000908304 3088 234 86%
2013 3249 0.000891195 3040 209 87%
2014 3109 0.000838825 2903 206 87%
2015 3267 0.000882755 3060 207 87%
2016 3300 0.000899502 3096 204 88%
2017 3218 0.000899839 3005 213 87%
2018 3021 0.00085924 2819 202 87%
2019 2949 0.000849627 2753 196 87%
2020 2531 0.000757654 2371 160 87%
2021 2408 0.000710754 2242 166 86%
2022 2133 0.00063048 1988 145 86%
2023 1842 0.000556294 1727 115 88%
2024 1402 0.000421211 1292 110 84%

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