Teal — #6417 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Teal

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,591 babies named Teal between 1957 and 2024, spanning 68 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Teal currently holds the #6417 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 66 babies received it in a single year. Teal is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 289 additional births since 1965.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Teal performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 444 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Teal shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 120 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Teal in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Teal in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,591 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.