The RAGAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	10,418	3162	0.004	39
United States (1880 census)	4,326	1438	0.009	87
Change since 1880	+6092	-1724	-0.005	-48
Other Countries
Australia	33	35388	0	2
United Kingdom	206	16149	0	4

Top States for RAGAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	808	2934	0.004	39
Georgia	693	1565	0.008	85
North Carolina	680	1779	0.008	84
Tennessee	630	1427	0.011	111
California	629	4692	0.002	19
Top States for RAGAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	630	1427	0.011	111
Missouri	578	1259	0.010	103
Arkansas	231	1589	0.009	86
Alabama	383	1855	0.009	86
Georgia	693	1565	0.008	85

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called RAGAN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called RAGAN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called RAGAN in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a RAGAN by picking someone at random in Tennessee than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of RAGAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the RAGAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the RAGAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of RAGAN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	265	2.54
White (Hispanic)	161	1.55
Mixed Race	138	1.32
Asian/Pacific	116	1.11
Native American/Alaskan	69	0.66
White (Caucasian)	9,670	92.82

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the RAGAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to RAGAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RAGAN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.