Reagan is derived from the Irish Gaelic name ‘Ó Ríagáin’, which is composed of two words ‘rí’ meaning ‘king’ and ‘agán’ meaning ‘little’. Therefore, the name means ‘The little king’ or ‘The descendant of the king’.
Reagan is a first name for girls, occasionally also given to boys.
The name Reagan isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Reagan ranks 104. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 18 were named Reagan. In the entire USA, approximately 64,608 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Reagan. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
Reagan is derived from the Irish Gaelic name ‘Ó Ríagáin’, which is composed of two words ‘rí’ meaning ‘king’ and ‘agán’ meaning ‘little’. Therefore, the name means ‘The little king’ or ‘The descendant of the king’.
Reagan Amyre Gomez-Preston (*1980)
The US-American actress is known for roles like Zaria Peterson on The WB sitcom »The Parent 'Hood« (1995–1999) and Roberta Tubbs on the FOX animated comedy »The Cleveland Show« (2009–2013).
Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004)
Reagan was an American actor and Republican politician before he became the 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to 1975 and later the 40th President of the United States. He is considered to be among the most prominent conservative figures in US-American history. His presidency lasted from 1981 to 1989 and constituted the so called »Reagan era«.
Nancy Reagan (1921-2016)
Born Anne Frances Robbins she was a US-American actress and wife of Ronald Reagan who was the 40th President of the United States. As such, she was the First Lady of the United States during her husband's term in office from 1981 to 1989.
Jimmy Reagan (1888-1975)
The US boxer won the world bantamweight championship in a twelve-round fight on 29 January 1909 against Jimmy Walsh in San Francisco, California and lost the title just one month later.
When you hear the name Reagan, you might first think of a woman or a girl. But did you know that there are also places with the name Reagan? Are you also called Reagan? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
There are numerous locations in different states of the U.S. that are called »Reagan«, for example in Indiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas.
»Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport« is a public airport located five kilometres south of downtown Washington, D.C. in Arlington County, USA.
is an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. The so called »supercarrier« was named after US President Ronald Reagan and has its home port in Yokosuka, Japan.
This is a real surprise! Reagan is a name that has been around for a long time, but only really took off in the 21st century. In the year 2016, it reached its best rank at #86 according to our SmartGenius statistics. This makes Reagan much more popular than in previous generations, where it was so rare for several years that it was not even recorded in the statistics. While the name Reagan was observed for the first time ever in 1913, it now seems to have found its place in the zeitgeist of the 21st century. In 2016, the year of its highest popularity, the name was given a total of 3,297 times. Whether this beautiful girls' name can repeat or even exceed its previous best ranking in the coming years remains to be seen, but the prospects are promising given the positive trend.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Reagan was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Reagan ranked #125 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to newborn girls a total of 2,125 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its popularity in the early years of this millennium, there is a good chance that Reagan will not disappear from the screen anytime soon.
The name Reagan may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Reagan is apparently especially popular in Nevada. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 1,191 women in Nevada is called Reagan. In total, that’s 375 women who feel addressed when the name Reagan is shouted loudly across Nevada and who ensure that their name makes it to #300 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Reagan as the answer a total of 59,587 times. This places Reagan at #460 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Reagan as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 4.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names are A and S, while X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.
With six letters, the name Reagan is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that if 4.1% of all girls' names start with an R, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: Rebecca is the girls’ name starting with R, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Reagan and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Reagan, you can simply say:
Rocket
Elephant
Apple
Goat
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Reagan sounds like this:
