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Reigan

Gender
Boy
Say it
RAY-gun
Origin
Irish
US rank, 2025
#10,104 for girls

Reigan is a boys' name of Irish origin, meaning “little king”. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).

What does Reigan mean?

Irish: variant of Reagan, from Irish Ó Riagáin

“little king”

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

Reigan is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls and 6 boys in the US.

How popular is Reigan in the UK?

No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2010, with 8 boys.

Half of all the boys named Reigan in the UK since 1996 were born between 2003 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.

1998Busiest: 8 in 20102023
Reigan in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20233#5,193
20220–
20210–
20200–
20193#4,913
20181#6,277
20172#6,253
20164#4,214
20151#6,220
20140–
20133#4,884
20123#4,999
20110–
20108#2,534
20095#3,395
20080–
20071#5,736
20060–
20050–
20043#3,792
20035#2,574
20020–
20013#3,255
20004#2,612
19990–
19983#3,021

How popular is Reigan in the US?

Rank in 2025
10,104th among girls
Babies in 2025
9 about 1 in 180,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling down 54% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Reigan, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 19 girls. It first appears in the records in 1996. 6 boys were also named Reigan in 2025 (10,690th for boys).

Half of all the girls named Reigan in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,887 girls in the US were given Reigan or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #192, up from #10,104 for this spelling alone.

1996Busiest: 19 in 20162025
Reigan in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20259#10,104
20246#13,472
20236#13,456
20229#10,377
202114#7,625
202014#7,554
201915#7,338
201817#6,788
201713#8,295
201619#6,398
201510#10,143
20149#10,949
201312#9,031
201211#9,706
201112#9,146
20106#14,953
200913#8,884
200810#10,802
200713#9,003
200612#9,282
20056#14,495
200415#7,386
200313#7,993
200211#8,831
200114#7,311
20008#10,738
19996#12,681
19986#12,420
19970–
19965#13,511

Names like Reigan

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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, “Reigan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/reigan, updated 20 October 2026.