Tegan
Tegan is given to both girls and boys: 80 girls and 47 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,297 among girls’ names and #2,751 among boys’, #3,015 among all names counting both); 9,363 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Tegan every year since 2008.
An estimated 9,240 Americans named Tegan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tegan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tegan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tegan is “a female given name from Welsh.” Its etymology gives the sense “pet, darling” (tegan).
Also “a male given name from Irish. Alternative form of Teagan.”
(female): 20th-century coinage from Welsh tegan (“pet, darling”).
(surname): Transferred use of Irish Ó Tadhgáin, a surname.
(male): From Teagan, from a diminutive of Irish Tadhg.
/ˈtiːɡən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tegan?
#2,297 among girls’ names, 2025
Tegan fell from #951 in 2015 to #2,297 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.16 to 0.05 per 1,000.
446 babies in 2011, the peak
Tegan peaked in 2011, when 446 babies were given it (350 girls, #780 among girls’ names). The 127 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 28% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 80 | #2,297 | 47 | #2,751 |
| 2024 | 95 | #2,052 | 55 | #2,499 |
| 2023 | 110 | #1,834 | 58 | #2,383 |
| 2022 | 125 | #1,682 | 57 | #2,463 |
| 2021 | 166 | #1,341 | 71 | #2,077 |
| 2020 | 185 | #1,235 | 64 | #2,183 |
| 2019 | 204 | #1,172 | 78 | #1,913 |
| 2018 | 236 | #1,079 | 83 | #1,834 |
| 2017 | 271 | #971 | 83 | #1,817 |
| 2016 | 308 | #904 | 84 | #1,809 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 286 | #951 | 114 | #1,472 |
| 2014 | 324 | #850 | 78 | #1,880 |
| 2013 | 304 | #854 | 100 | #1,567 |
| 2012 | 253 | #1,004 | 104 | #1,540 |
| 2011 | 350 | #780 | 96 | #1,609 |
| 2010 | 275 | #940 | 135 | #1,291 |
| 2009 | 257 | #1,022 | 161 | #1,141 |
| 2008 | 244 | #1,075 | 158 | #1,153 |
| 2007 | 173 | #1,391 | 202 | #975 |
| 2006 | 145 | #1,521 | 145 | #1,170 |
| 2005 | 145 | #1,465 | 136 | #1,179 |
| 2004 | 138 | #1,468 | 79 | #1,648 |
| 2003 | 137 | #1,443 | 60 | #1,954 |
| 2002 | 94 | #1,893 | 49 | #2,186 |
| 2001 | 109 | #1,668 | 48 | #2,177 |
| 2000 | 91 | #1,879 | 32 | #2,851 |
| 1999 | 80 | #1,971 | 32 | #2,714 |
| 1998 | 78 | #1,951 | 29 | #2,842 |
| 1997 | 78 | #1,895 | 19 | #3,715 |
| 1996 | 72 | #1,977 | 14 | #4,580 |
| 1995 | 62 | #2,181 | 15 | #4,245 |
| 1994 | 57 | #2,313 | 21 | #3,307 |
| 1993 | 61 | #2,188 | 12 | #4,953 |
| 1992 | 72 | #1,940 | 14 | #4,298 |
| 1991 | 62 | #2,154 | 9 | #5,880 |
| 1990 | 93 | #1,612 | 8 | #6,346 |
| 1989 | 107 | #1,401 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 85 | #1,562 | 8 | #5,685 |
| 1987 | 107 | #1,300 | 5 | #8,017 |
| 1986 | 112 | #1,231 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 129 | #1,126 | 5 | #7,472 |
| 1984 | 82 | #1,429 | 6 | #6,236 |
| 1983 | 47 | #2,128 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 30 | #3,012 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 38 | #2,527 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 40 | #2,433 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 58 | #1,854 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,734 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,901 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,275 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,426 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 5 | #10,095 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 9 | #6,022 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,068 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,599 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,726 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,917 | 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 Tegan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 9,363 Americans recorded as Tegan, 73% are girls and 27% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tegan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tegan, and how old are they?
9,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 9,363 Americans ever recorded as Tegan. The median Tegan alive today is 16 years old; half are between 10 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 7,995 people named Tegan (5,840 women and girls, 2,155 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,222 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 215 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,090 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,640 |
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 Tegan born?
The states with the most babies named Tegan are California, Pennsylvania and Ohio, with 50% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,486 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,677 | 0.9× |
| New York | 5 | #2,398 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,662 | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,191 | 0.6× |
Where Tegan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tegan is most over-represented in Colorado: since 1957 it was given 1.3 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 Tegan 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, Tegan is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 127 of their 1,295 babies (9.8%), again the second 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 Tegan
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 Tegan and names like it
- Compare Tegan and TeaganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sTegan peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tegan since 1910.
- Welsh namesWiktionary’s origin for Tegan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Tegan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tegan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.