Ragen
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Ragen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Lancs; London; also. from Mag Riagáin, see Regan . Further information: this name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 230Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- KEKenya≈1 in 630K
- USUnited States1 in 656K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 187 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 102K (inferred from the name graph)
507 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): Lancs; London; also. from Mag Riagáin, see Regan . Further information: this name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA.
Cited for this meaning 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ragen is found
(measured from records)Ragen 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.
507 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch" — 2022 gazetted election winners. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Ragen is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, to protrude
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In Catalan, third-person plural present indicative of rajar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, to rise up out
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Naomi Ragenb. 1949USAmerican-Israeli writer of English language
- Jackson Ragenb. 1998USAmerican soccer player
- Michael Ragencinematographer
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ragen mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Lancs; London; also. from Mag Riagáin, see Regan . Further information: this name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and A Frequency Dictionary of German.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ragen?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 507 people named Ragen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ragen. After it come Ghana, Australia, Kenya and Nigeria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ragen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 507 people named Ragen in 2010, about 1 in 656 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ragenThe 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, “Ragen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.