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Hagen vs Hagop

American parents have registered 3,428 Hagens since 1880, against 342 Hagops. Hagen is still ahead, with 73 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Hagen against Hagop, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Hagen 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 54 years in which either name was published, Hagen for 42 years and Hagop for 12 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Hagen Hagop
Total US births 3,428342
Most in one year 14517
Babies in 2025 73under 5
Estimated living today 3,400300
Median age today 1533
Peak year 20061992
Best rank 1,239th boys3,604th boys
Rank in 2025 2,035thunranked
First recorded 19731922
Girls / boys 243 / 3,1850 / 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 Hagens are over 15. That is 18 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Hagen Hagop
France 1025

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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