Teagan
Masculine · “little poet”
Teagan is given to both — 5,595 boys and 29,421 girls since 1880. See Teagan as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Teagan is Ó Tadhgáin anglicized, and the Irish Tadhg means a poet — the word for a bard, which became so common a name that Tadhg meant simply a man, the Irish everyman.
How old is the name Teagan?
Teagan first appears in US birth records in 1986 — 39 years ago. The typical Teagan alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 5,500 people named Teagan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Teagan most popular?
Teagan peaked in 2009, reaching #649 nationally. Today it ranks #1621, 972 places below that high. See the whole 2009 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Tadhg to Teagan
The story of Teagan
Tadhg was among the most common Irish male names of the medieval period, carried by kings of Connacht and Munster. The surname Ó Tadhgáin was anglicized as Teague, Tegan and Teagan. Its American given-name use is recent, for both sexes from the 1990s; masculine Teagan is in current use.
Meaning
little poet
From the Irish Ó Tadhgáin, built on Tadhg, 'poet' or 'philosopher', with the diminutive -án. Tadhg was so widespread that the phrase Tadhg an mhargaidh — Tadhg of the marketplace — became the Irish for the ordinary man. The elements are ordinary Irish and the meaning undisputed.
How the name formed
- Tadhg
- Ó Tadhgáin
- Teagan
Related forms: Ó Tadhgáin · Tegan · Teegan
Pronouncing Teagan
TEE-gun
Two syllables, stress on the first. The Welsh Tegan is TEG-an with a short first vowel and is a separate name.
Nicknames for Teagan
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1986
- Most boys named
- 2009382 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #649reached in 2009
- Change vs 2024
- −16.1%104 in 2025, from 124
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Teagan in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ó Tadhgáin in Irish — related form
- Tegan in Welsh — related form
- Teegan in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Florida, California.
Teagans among us
people named Teagan are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 16,424 born in 2025 was named Teagan
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Johnpaul test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Teagan's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Johnpaul climbed just as high around 1979, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Johnpaul's path sketches the road Teagan is walking now.
Teagan sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Teagan is headed
Teagan should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Teagan beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Teagan in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The poet meaning is concrete and belongs to a documented Irish tradition.
- The Tadhg-as-everyman idiom is a genuinely good piece of Irish usage.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- In America the name now reads as more feminine than masculine.
- The Welsh Tegan is a separate name meaning 'pretty thing'.
- Keegan and Reagan are close enough in sound to cause confusion.
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Frequently asked
- How many Teagans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 5,500 people named Teagan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Teagan in 2025?
- Teagan ranks #1621 among US boy names in 2025, with 104 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Teagan?
- About 1 in every 16,424 US boys born in 2025 was named Teagan — 104 in all.
- Will my child share the name Teagan with classmates?
- Teagan will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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