Regan

Regan is the 1,678th most common surname in the United States, shared by 21,004 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 14,200.

By the numbers

People: 21,004
Rank: 1,678th
How common: 1 in 14,200
Per 100,000: 7.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Regan described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 90.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Black, not Hispanic 1.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Regan

Tom Regan (1938–2017)American philosopher
Bridget Regan (born 1982)American actress
Charles Tate Regan (1878–1943)British zoologist
Vincent Regan (born 1965)British actor
Donald Regan (1918–2003)American cabinet official
Laura Regan (born 1977)Canadian actress
Emily Regan (born 1988)American rower
Michael S. Regan (born 1976)Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 2021 to 2024

People named Regan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Regan

Also a first name

Regan has been given to 20,053 American babies as a first name since 1920, peaking in 2001. 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.