Given name & surname
Jagan
“one who is self-confident”
Jagan is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “one who is self-confident.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “one who is self-confident.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2004. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jagan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 25
- 25 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2004
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 379 as a first name in 2020; 168 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jagan’s family of names
Jagan has a related form in Jagen. Jagan has a related form in Jagin. Jagan has a related form in Jago.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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