Teagan
Teagan is given to both girls and boys: 894 girls and 104 boys were given it in 2025 (#341 among girls’ names and #1,631 among boys’, #656 among all names counting both); 35,016 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 34,700 Americans named Teagan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Teagan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Teagan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Teagan is “a female given name from Welsh, variant of Tegan.” Its etymology gives the sense “poet” (tadhg).
Also “a male given name from Irish.”
(male): A diminutive of the Irish male name Tadhg, from tadhg (“poet”)
(female): A variant of Tegan, from Welsh tegan (“pet, darling”)
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Teagan?
#341 among girls’ names, 2025
Teagan fell from #231 in 2015 to #341 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.81 to 0.56 per 1,000.
2,220 babies in 2016, the peak
Teagan peaked in 2016, when 2,220 babies were given it (2,045 girls, #150 among girls’ names). The 998 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 45% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 894 | #341 | 104 | #1,631 |
| 2024 | 942 | #332 | 124 | #1,469 |
| 2023 | 998 | #308 | 136 | #1,378 |
| 2022 | 1,108 | #286 | 129 | #1,424 |
| 2021 | 1,215 | #255 | 125 | #1,449 |
| 2020 | 1,501 | #192 | 133 | #1,346 |
| 2019 | 1,600 | #185 | 144 | #1,294 |
| 2018 | 1,657 | #178 | 148 | #1,253 |
| 2017 | 1,733 | #175 | 149 | #1,234 |
| 2016 | 2,045 | #150 | 175 | #1,120 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,439 | #231 | 202 | #1,011 |
| 2014 | 1,285 | #254 | 214 | #980 |
| 2013 | 1,226 | #264 | 222 | #924 |
| 2012 | 1,244 | #259 | 304 | #753 |
| 2011 | 1,473 | #214 | 295 | #762 |
| 2010 | 1,304 | #243 | 342 | #688 |
| 2009 | 1,195 | #276 | 382 | #652 |
| 2008 | 1,046 | #321 | 366 | #663 |
| 2007 | 796 | #412 | 352 | #676 |
| 2006 | 741 | #430 | 243 | #840 |
| 2005 | 636 | #480 | 208 | #878 |
| 2004 | 548 | #523 | 189 | #905 |
| 2003 | 429 | #627 | 143 | #1,086 |
| 2002 | 411 | #623 | 151 | #1,020 |
| 2001 | 321 | #748 | 113 | #1,199 |
| 2000 | 266 | #838 | 99 | #1,307 |
| 1999 | 266 | #816 | 68 | #1,598 |
| 1998 | 182 | #1,072 | 59 | #1,736 |
| 1997 | 158 | #1,166 | 57 | #1,723 |
| 1996 | 163 | #1,116 | 33 | #2,428 |
| 1995 | 78 | #1,831 | 38 | #2,168 |
| 1994 | 84 | #1,750 | 27 | #2,748 |
| 1993 | 67 | #2,061 | 22 | #3,126 |
| 1992 | 69 | #2,003 | 21 | #3,200 |
| 1991 | 55 | #2,346 | 22 | #2,971 |
| 1990 | 49 | #2,485 | 18 | #3,442 |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,317 | 12 | #4,487 |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,292 | 13 | #3,884 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,412 | 6 | #6,851 |
| 1986 | 36 | #2,716 | 7 | #5,865 |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,076 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,949 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,900 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,143 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,351 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 6 | #10,089 | 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 Teagan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 35,016 Americans recorded as Teagan, 84% are girls and 16% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Teagan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Teagan, and how old are they?
34,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 35,016 Americans ever recorded as Teagan. The median Teagan alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 26,042 people named Teagan (21,546 women and girls, 4,496 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 27,804 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 949 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 14,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 19,500 |
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).
Where are babies named Teagan born?
The states with the most babies named Teagan are Texas, California and Florida, with 21% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 72 | #505 | 0.6× |
| California | 61 | #541 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 54 | #424 | 0.8× |
| New York | 53 | #386 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 48 | #227 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 46 | #245 | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 43 | #263 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 36 | #377 | 0.7× |
| Wisconsin | 31 | #178 | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 30 | #355 | 1.1× |
Where Teagan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Teagan is most over-represented in Montana: since 1979 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Teagan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 54,152 babies since 1880, Teagan is the most given (65% of them). In 2025 it was given to 998 of their 1,295 babies (77%), again the most given.
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 Teagan
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 Teagan and names like it
- Compare Teagan and TeganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sTeagan peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Teagan since 1910.
- Irish namesWiktionary’s origin for Teagan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Teagan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Teagan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.