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Teagan

Teagan is a girl's name that peaked in 2016, when it was the 150th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 340th. About 35,000 Teagans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

girls named Teagan boys named Teagan

Girls and boys called Teagan

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 29,421 girls and 5,595 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 894 to 104.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 41 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
35,016
Estimated living today
35,000
Median age today
11
Peak year
2016
Best rank
150th
Rank in 2025
340th
First recorded
1979
Girls / boys
29,421 / 5,595

How old the living Teagans are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 35,016 babies given the name since 1979, about 35,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 27,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

A diminutive of the male name Tadhg, from tadhg (“poet”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Teagans

People named Teagan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Teagan is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Teagan is most concentrated in Colorado (2.3×), Montana (2.1×), Idaho (2.1×), Nevada (2.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2016

The most popular girls’ names the year Teagan peaked:

All the names of 2016

Teagan elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Teagan 2,094 259th
Ireland girls Teagan 481 145th
Scotland girls Teagan 186 201st
Northern Ireland girls Teagan 125 171st
England and Wales boys Teagan 56 2,613th
France boys Teagan 10 6,170th
Ireland boys Teagan 6 730th
Scotland boys Teagan 3 626th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Teagan against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.