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Teague vs Tearra

American parents have registered 1,737 Teagues since 1880, against 758 Tearras. Teague is still ahead, with 19 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Teague against Tearra, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Teague 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 57 years in which either name was published, Teague for 40 years and Tearra for 17 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Teague Tearra
Total US births 1,737758
Most in one year 8843
Babies in 2025 19under 5
Estimated living today 1,700740
Median age today 1831
Peak year 20091989
Best rank 1,742nd boys2,618th girls
Rank in 2025 5,045thunranked
First recorded 19691977
Girls / boys 32 / 1,705758 / 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 Teagues are over 18. That is 13 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: Teague and Tearra.