Reagan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From an Irish personal name meaning ‘little king’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɹeɪɡən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Reagan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 29K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 15Kas Regan
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 8.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Reagan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 415 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈91,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
North Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From an Irish personal name meaning ‘little king’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Reagan 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 | — | ≈91,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Reagan | 11 |
| US United States | — | 21,951as Regan | 1 in 15K | 52K | Reagan | 415 |
| KP North Korea | #711 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Reagan | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 4 | Reagan | 114 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 2 | Reagan | 14 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Reagan | 2 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Reagan | 24 |
| NO Norway | — | 16 | 1 in 342K | 34 | — | 11 |
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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Reagan is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Of the administration of Ronald Reagan, U.S. President from 1981–1989.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Ronald, 40th US president
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, county, TX
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Croatian, američki političar i državnik, republikanac, predsjednik SAD-a 1981—1989.
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- John Henninger Reaganb. 1818USAmerican politician (1818-1905)
- Jack Reaganb. 1883USfather of Ronald Reagan (1883–1941)
- Nelle Wilson Reaganb. 1883USmother of Ronald Reagan (1883-1962)
- Ronald Reaganb. 1911USpresident of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and actor (1911–2004)
- Nancy Reaganb. 1921USFirst Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989
- Maureen Reaganb. 1941USAmerican political activist (1941–2001)
- Michael Reaganb. 1945USAmerican television personality and journalist (1945–2026)
- Ronald Prescott Reaganb. 1958USAmerican liberal political commentator (born 1958)
- Mike Reaganb. 1974USAmerican composer
- Faye Reaganb. 1988USAmerican pornographic actress
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 50 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 16K | #2,207 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 16K | #2,122 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 15K | #2,331 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 16 | #47,395 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Reagan mean, and where does it come from?
- From an Irish personal name meaning ‘little king’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Reagan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 91 thousand people named Reagan in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled reagan.
- How do you pronounce Reagan?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹeɪɡən/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Reagan?
- In Norway, the national register counted 16 people named Reagan, about 1 in 342 thousand residents.
- How common is Reagan compared with other names?
- In North Korea, Reagan is the 711th most common surname of 2,439 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/reaganThe 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, “Reagan” — the 711th most common surname in North Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.