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Raegan vs Raewyn

American parents have registered 25,492 Raegans since 1880, against 24 Raewyns. Raegan is still ahead, with 594 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Raegan Raewyn

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

Raegan has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1956 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1981, when Raegan had 51 and Raewyn had 5.

Side by side

  Raegan Raewyn
Total US births 25,49224
Most in one year 1,4178
Babies in 2025 594under 5
Estimated living today 25,00020
Median age today 1212
Peak year 20192021
Best rank 219th girls11,146th girls
Rank in 2025 505thunranked
First recorded 19561981
Girls / boys 25,214 / 27824 / 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Raegan Raewyn
England and Wales 4543

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: Raegan and Raewyn.