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Teagan vs Tearra

American parents have registered 35,016 Teagans since 1880, against 758 Tearras. Teagan is still ahead, with 998 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Teagan against Tearra, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Teagan Tearra

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 48 years in which either name was published, Teagan for 42 years and Tearra for 6 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Teagan Tearra
Total US births 35,016758
Most in one year 2,22043
Babies in 2025 998under 5
Estimated living today 35,000740
Median age today 1131
Peak year 20161989
Best rank 150th girls2,618th girls
Rank in 2025 340thunranked
First recorded 19791977
Girls / boys 29,421 / 5,595758 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Tearras alive today are over 31; half the Teagans are over 11. That is 20 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Teagan and Tearra.