How popular is “Regan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Regan” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Regan” 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 “Regan” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Regan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Regan” 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
1920	5	0.00000221		5	-100%
1946	14	0.000004381	6	8	-14%
1947	30	0.000008328	10	20	-33%
1948	31	0.000008979	13	18	-16%
1949	40	0.000011478	13	27	-35%
1950	42	0.000011988	13	29	-38%
1951	42	0.000011401	10	32	-52%
1952	47	0.000012375	17	30	-28%
1953	53	0.000013753	13	40	-51%
1954	44	0.000011053	15	29	-32%
1955	46	0.000011457	20	26	-13%
1956	61	0.000014795	24	37	-21%
1957	39	0.000009281	16	23	-18%
1958	45	0.000010886	16	29	-29%
1959	55	0.000013228	19	36	-31%
1960	72	0.000017333	13	59	-64%
1961	86	0.000020761	17	69	-60%
1962	85	0.000021064	31	54	-27%
1963	104	0.000026275	44	60	-15%
1964	135	0.000034726	50	85	-26%
1965	121	0.000033375	46	75	-24%
1966	123	0.000035389	47	76	-24%
1967	82	0.000024154	42	40	2%
1968	57	0.000016872	30	27	5%
1969	77	0.000022156	39	38	1%
1970	67	0.000018577	35	32	4%
1971	65	0.000018937	35	30	8%
1972	101	0.000032135	72	29	43%
1973	152	0.000050383	109	43	43%
1974	225	0.000074013	188	37	67%
1975	296	0.000098033	220	76	49%
1976	218	0.000071845	169	49	55%
1977	252	0.000079333	195	57	55%
1978	267	0.000084124	189	78	42%
1979	301	0.000090472	212	89	41%
1980	361	0.000104805	281	80	56%
1981	184	0.000053189	147	37	60%
1982	114	0.000032498	82	32	44%
1983	117	0.000033782	88	29	50%
1984	150	0.000042995	120	30	60%
1985	137	0.000038385	104	33	52%
1986	124	0.00003486	101	23	63%
1987	136	0.000037719	97	39	43%
1988	151	0.000040866	116	35	54%
1989	182	0.000047341	137	45	51%
1990	212	0.000053637	162	50	53%
1991	255	0.000065464	206	49	62%
1992	262	0.000068207	220	42	68%
1993	349	0.000092566	285	64	63%
1994	433	0.000116471	365	68	69%
1995	449	0.000122605	397	52	77%
1996	541	0.000148333	487	54	80%
1997	639	0.000176239	564	75	77%
1998	672	0.000182698	615	57	83%
1999	670	0.000181382	611	59	82%
2000	671	0.000177518	592	79	76%
2001	810	0.000216381	747	63	84%
2002	798	0.000213467	737	61	85%
2003	724	0.00019041	669	55	85%
2004	790	0.000206756	726	64	84%
2005	711	0.000184923	653	58	84%
2006	579	0.000146353	518	61	79%
2007	639	0.000159843	558	81	75%
2008	514	0.000130767	441	73	72%
2009	461	0.000120675	401	60	74%
2010	444	0.000120138	390	54	76%
2011	338	0.000092405	277	61	64%
2012	385	0.000105267	327	58	70%
2013	339	0.000092987	294	45	73%
2014	290	0.000078244	238	52	64%
2015	312	0.000084304	262	50	68%
2016	262	0.000071415	216	46	65%
2017	245	0.000068509	189	56	54%
2018	197	0.000056031	160	37	62%
2019	182	0.000052435	147	35	62%
2020	145	0.000043406	117	28	61%
2021	147	0.000043389	118	29	61%
2022	143	0.000042268	121	22	69%
2023	107	0.000032315	77	30	44%
2024	105	0.000031546	78	27	49%

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