Reagan
15,210 people in the United States were counted with the surname Reagan in the 2020 census, making it the 2,331st most common in the country. That is about one person in 19,700.
By the numbers
- People
- 15,210
- Rank
- 2,331st
- How common
- 1 in 19,700
- Per 100,000
- 5.1
Where the name comes from
Origin Irish
Anglicized from Gaelic Ó Riagáin (“descendant of Riagán”), a personal name possibly derived from ríodhgach (“impulsive, furious”), an alternative form of ríogach.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Reagan described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Reagan
- Ronald Reagan (1911–2004)president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and actor
- Nancy Reagan (1921–2016)First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989
- John Henninger Reagan (1818–1905)American politician
- Faye Reagan (born 1988)American pornographic actress
- Ron Reagan (born 1958)American liberal political commentator
- Maureen Reagan (1941–2001)American political activist
People named Reagan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Reagan
Also a first name
Reagan has been given to 73,580 American babies as a first name since 1913, peaking in 2016. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.