Rheagan
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- RAY-gin
- Origin
- Irish
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Rheagan is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “little king”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Rheagan mean?
Irish: variant of Reagan, from Irish Ó Riagáin
“little king”
A variant of Reagan, an Irish surname from Ó Riagáin, descendant of Riagán, a name based on rí 'king'.
Is Rheagan a girl's or a boy's name?
Rheagan is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Rheagan in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2002, with 6 girls.
Rheagan in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | #7,582 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 1 | #7,536 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 2 | #7,447 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 1 | #7,383 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 1 | #6,173 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 6 | #2,691 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 1 | #5,182 |
| 1998 | 1 | #5,152 |
| 1997 | 1 | #5,110 |
| 1996 | 1 | #5,054 |
How popular is Rheagan in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 33% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Rheagan, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2004, with 31 girls. It first appears in the records in 1980.
2025 had fewer girls named Rheagan than any year since 1997.
Half of all the girls named Rheagan in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,887 girls in the US were given Rheagan or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #192, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.
Rheagan in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,438 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,712 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,006 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,283 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,849 |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,125 |
| 2014 | 17 | #6,985 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,014 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,338 |
| 2011 | 22 | #5,932 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,412 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,088 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,140 |
| 2007 | 23 | #5,891 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,810 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,577 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,383 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,413 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,494 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,829 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,700 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,655 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,793 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,569 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,636 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,563 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,581 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,504 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,139 |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,177 |
Names like Rheagan
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Raegan Teagan Caoimhe Keira Rowan Aoibheann Cassidy Caragh Eireann Eden Bree Tegan
Other spellings of Rheagan
Names related to Rheagan
More Irish names
Oscar Rory Maeve Finn Aiden Ryan Nolan Quinn Orla Cody Erin Ronan Connor Declan Casey Kennedy
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, “Rheagan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/rheagan, updated 20 October 2026.