Given name & surname
Pagan
“a man from the country”
Pagan is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “a man from the country.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “a man from the country.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1984. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Pagan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 50
- 0 boys · 50 girls
- Most popular year
- 1984
- 10 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 girls is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 1984. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 169 as a first name in 2020; 24,020 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.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Pagan
- Pagan the ButlerFrench noble1100–1149
- Pagan AmumSouth Sudanese politician, Minister of Peaceborn 1957
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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