Taegen
Taegen was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 227 Americans have been recorded with it between 1997 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taegen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Taegen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,251, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 2010, the peak
Taegen peaked in 2010, when 24 babies were given it (9 girls, #12,144 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #17,251 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 5 | #13,937 | |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,815 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,406 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,263 | 6 | #12,078 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,144 | 15 | #5,993 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,913 | 6 | #12,290 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,911 | 8 | #9,747 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,738 | 5 | #14,128 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,891 | 7 | #10,507 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 13 | #8,812 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,626 | 5 | #12,977 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,543 | 5 | #12,522 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,394 | 5 | #12,263 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,917 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,673 | 6 | #10,189 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,534 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 9 | #10,006 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,855 | 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 Taegen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 227 Americans recorded as Taegen, 68% are girls and 32% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Taegen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taegen, and how old are they?
An estimated 224 Americans named Taegen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 16 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 275 people named Taegen (177 women and girls, 98 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 221 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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, Taegen is the third most given (8.9% 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 Taegen
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1990-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Adison | 3,909 |
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 Taegen and names like it
- Compare Taegen and TaeganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sTaegen peaked in 2010.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Taegen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Taegen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.