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Hagan vs Hagop

American parents have registered 1,623 Hagans since 1880, against 342 Hagops. Hagan is still ahead, with 33 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Hagan against Hagop, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Hagan Hagop

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 63 years in which either name was published, Hagan for 45 years and Hagop for 18 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Hagan Hagop
Total US births 1,623342
Most in one year 7917
Babies in 2025 33under 5
Estimated living today 1,600300
Median age today 1733
Peak year 20091992
Best rank 1,942nd boys3,604th boys
Rank in 2025 3,848thunranked
First recorded 19141922
Girls / boys 168 / 1,4550 / 342

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Hagops alive today are over 33; half the Hagans are over 17. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Hagan and Hagop.