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Ragan vs Ragna

American parents have registered 2,260 Ragans since 1880, against 201 Ragnas. Ragan is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ragan against Ragna, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ragan Ragna

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 92 years in which either name was published, Ragan for 66 years and Ragna for 26 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Ragan Ragna
Total US births 2,260201
Most in one year 8918
Babies in 2025 6under 5
Estimated living today 2,2000
Median age today 2798
Peak year 19981915
Best rank 1,940th girls1,800th girls
Rank in 2025 13,208thunranked
First recorded 19231885
Girls / boys 1,866 / 394201 / 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 Ragnas alive today are over 98; half the Ragans are over 27. That is 71 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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