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Raegan vs Raeleen

American parents have registered 25,492 Raegans since 1880, against 559 Raeleens. Raegan is still ahead, with 594 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Raegan against Raeleen, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Raegan Raeleen

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 78 years in which either name was published, Raegan for 62 years and Raeleen for 16 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Raegan Raeleen
Total US births 25,492559
Most in one year 1,41714
Babies in 2025 5948
Estimated living today 25,000510
Median age today 1239
Peak year 20191959
Best rank 219th girls3,254th girls
Rank in 2025 505th10,917th
First recorded 19561934
Girls / boys 25,214 / 278559 / 0

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 Raeleens alive today are over 39; half the Raegans are over 12. That is 27 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: Raegan and Raeleen.