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Reegan

Gender
Boy
Say it
REE-gan
Origin
Irish
UK rank, 2025
#3,329 for boys

Reegan is a boys' name of Irish origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,329th for boys in the UK (6 babies).

What does Reegan mean?

Irish: spelling of Reagan

A spelling of Reagan, from the Irish surname Ó Riagáin.

Is Reegan a girl's or a boy's name?

Reegan is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Reegan in the UK?

Rank in 2025
3,329th among boys
Babies in 2025
6 about 1 in 50,000 boys
Five-year trend
Falling fast down 77% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 6 boys in the UK were named Reegan, making it the 3,329th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,275th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 72 boys.

Half of all the boys named Reegan in the UK since 1996 were born between 2005 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 46 boys in the UK were given Reegan or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #715, up from #3,329 for this spelling alone.

Girls were 44% of the babies named Reegan in the UK in 1997, and 7% in 2023.

Among boys in 2025, it was 3,239th in England and Wales.

1996Busiest: 72 in 20122025
Reegan in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20256#3,329
20240–
202314#1,812
202224#1,229
202111#2,100
202022#1,275
201929#1,061
201836#919
201730#1,068
201644#806
201546#776
201453#696
201350#729
201272#564
201166#578
201060#624
200960#606
200847#717
200744#710
200649#643
200543#673
200439#680
200336#668
200235#625
200121#871
200033#620
199928#683
199829#671
19979#1,412
199615#979

How popular is Reegan in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2009, with 80 girls. It first appears in the records in 1990.

Half of all the girls named Reegan in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2019, 73% of the babies named Reegan in the US were girls.

1990Busiest: 80 in 20092023
Reegan in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20236#13,456
20229#10,377
202115#7,245
202014#7,554
201927#4,908
201822#5,615
201727#4,920
201643#3,588
201549#3,299
201439#3,846
201333#4,334
201279#2,356
201173#2,482
201062#2,802
200980#2,395
200867#2,718
200767#2,710
200646#3,468
200555#2,931
200469#2,443
200345#3,228
200248#3,010
200154#2,736
200049#2,899
199927#4,197
199814#6,714
19978#9,797
199611#7,569
19958#9,548
199413#6,666
19939#8,712
19925#13,308
19910–
19905#12,952

Names like Reegan

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Reegan

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Reegan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/reegan, updated 20 October 2026.