Ragan
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɹeɪɡən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ragan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): scattered: esp. London;. from Mag Riagáin, see Regan .
- USUnited States1 in 30K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 44K
- IEIreland≈1 in 21K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 385 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
≈43,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): scattered: esp. London;. from Mag Riagáin, see Regan .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ragan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Ragan | 6 |
| US United States | — | 11,081 | 1 in 30K | 11K | Ragan | 385 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 44K | 281 | Ragan | 89 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Ragan | 8 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,002 | 1 in 38K | 524 | — | 2 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Ragan | 7 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Ragan | 7 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Ragan | 7 |
| JM Jamaica | #991 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Ragan | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pat Raganb. 1885USAmerican baseball player
- Sam Raganb. 1915USAmerican poet (1915-1996)
- John Raganb. 1948USAmerican businessman and politician
- Amanda Raganb. 1954USAmerican politician in Iowa (born 1954)
- Randy Raganb. 1959CACanadian soccer player (born 1959)
- Christoper Raganb. 1962CACanadian economist
- Richard Raganb. 1964USUnited Nations official
- Chuck Raganb. 1974USAmerican musician
- David Raganb. 1985USAmerican racing driver (born 1985)
- Duke Raganb. 1997USAmerican boxer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 11K | #3,258 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 10K | #3,162 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.8K | #3,548 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 524 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 524 | #6,241 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 478 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 478 | #6,722 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 281 | #17,113 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ragan mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): scattered: esp. London;. from Mag Riagáin, see Regan . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Ragan?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹeɪɡən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ragan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 43 thousand people named Ragan in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ragan.
- How common is the name Ragan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,081 people named Ragan in 2010, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
- How common is Ragan compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Ragan is the 991st most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/raganThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ragan” — the 991st most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.