# Regan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/regan/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 20,053 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,746 / 16,307 (81% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 4,626, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 277 | 933 |
| 2012 | 327 | 824 |
| 2013 | 294 | 880 |
| 2014 | 238 | 1,078 |
| 2015 | 262 | 1,024 |
| 2016 | 216 | 1,170 |
| 2017 | 189 | 1,256 |
| 2018 | 160 | 1,402 |
| 2019 | 147 | 1,491 |
| 2020 | 117 | 1,725 |
| 2021 | 118 | 1,746 |
| 2022 | 121 | 1,730 |
| 2023 | 77 | 2,375 |
| 2024 | 78 | 2,360 |
| 2025 | 80 | 2,295 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 61 | 2,166 |
| 2012 | 58 | 2,260 |
| 2013 | 45 | 2,659 |
| 2014 | 52 | 2,455 |
| 2015 | 50 | 2,518 |
| 2016 | 46 | 2,679 |
| 2017 | 56 | 2,336 |
| 2018 | 37 | 3,157 |
| 2019 | 35 | 3,327 |
| 2020 | 28 | 3,788 |
| 2021 | 29 | 3,796 |
| 2022 | 22 | 4,666 |
| 2023 | 30 | 3,783 |
| 2024 | 27 | 4,052 |
| 2025 | 17 | 5,559 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 18 | 1,608 |
| 2012 | 20 | 1,525 |
| 2013 | 16 | 1,774 |
| 2014 | 13 | 2,058 |
| 2015 | 10 | 2,496 |
| 2016 | 14 | 2,008 |
| 2017 | 11 | 2,341 |
| 2018 | 19 | 1,586 |
| 2019 | 11 | 2,286 |
| 2020 | 9 | 2,615 |
| 2021 | 14 | 1,962 |
| 2022 | 6 | 3,533 |
| 2023 | 6 | 3,598 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3,695 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,867 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 126 | 346 |
| 2012 | 128 | 343 |
| 2013 | 105 | 388 |
| 2014 | 75 | 513 |
| 2015 | 102 | 410 |
| 2016 | 111 | 395 |
| 2017 | 87 | 469 |
| 2018 | 89 | 458 |
| 2019 | 87 | 463 |
| 2020 | 73 | 513 |
| 2021 | 48 | 719 |
| 2022 | 61 | 606 |
| 2023 | 42 | 779 |
| 2024 | 33 | 945 |
| 2025 | 34 | 914 |

## People named Regan

- Regan Smith, American swimmer
- Regan Harrison, Australian swimmer, Olympic silver medallist, world champion
- Regan Charles-Cook, British association football player
- Regan Smith, American stock car racing driver
- Regan Slater, association football player (born 1999)
- Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian (born 1961)
- Busdriver, American rapper

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.