Taegan
Taegan was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,392 among girls’ names; 1,500 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,490 Americans named Taegan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taegan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Taegan?
#9,392 among girls’ names, 2025
Taegan fell from #3,474 in 2015 to #9,392 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 25.8 to 6.8 per million.
111 babies in 2008, the peak
Taegan peaked in 2008, when 111 babies were given it (82 girls, #2,378 among girls’ names). The 11 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,392 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,375 | 5 | #13,993 |
| 2023 | 14 | #8,005 | 7 | #10,666 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,952 | 7 | #10,710 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,475 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,292 | 5 | #13,801 |
| 2019 | 27 | #5,020 | 10 | #8,130 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,547 | 14 | #6,294 |
| 2017 | 46 | #3,430 | 19 | #5,083 |
| 2016 | 51 | #3,222 | 14 | #6,302 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #3,474 | 14 | #6,271 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,914 | 16 | #5,683 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,839 | 7 | #10,587 |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,844 | 18 | #5,211 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,598 | 30 | #3,588 |
| 2010 | 61 | #2,866 | 23 | #4,345 |
| 2009 | 57 | #3,042 | 23 | #4,414 |
| 2008 | 82 | #2,378 | 29 | #3,727 |
| 2007 | 70 | #2,641 | 19 | #4,959 |
| 2006 | 51 | #3,254 | 21 | #4,491 |
| 2005 | 43 | #3,495 | 20 | #4,438 |
| 2004 | 61 | #2,704 | 13 | #6,087 |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,515 | 17 | #4,780 |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,136 | 24 | #3,649 |
| 2001 | 54 | #2,759 | 17 | #4,645 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,064 | 9 | #7,321 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,849 | 10 | #6,448 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,968 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,798 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,081 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Taegan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,500 Americans recorded as Taegan, 74% are girls and 26% boys. In 2025 it went to 11 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Taegan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taegan, and how old are they?
1,490 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,500 Americans ever recorded as Taegan. The median Taegan alive today is 17 years old; half are between 11 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,300 people named Taegan (961 women and girls, 339 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,386 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 13 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 993 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 480 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 2,564 babies since 1880, Taegan is the most given (59% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Taegan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Taegan and names like it
- Compare Taegan and TaygenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTaegan peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taegan since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Taegan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Taegan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.