Teegan
Feminine · “little poet”
Teegan is given to both — 2,000 girls and 1,592 boys since 1880. See Teegan as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Teegan is a spelling of Teagan, and the Welsh Tegan — a separate name meaning a plaything or a darling — arrived at almost the same sound by a different road.
How old is the name Teegan?
Teegan first appears in US birth records in 1985 — 40 years ago. The typical Teegan is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,000 people named Teegan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Teegan most popular?
Teegan peaked in 2016, reaching #1541 nationally. Today it ranks #3975, 2,434 places below that high. See the whole 2016 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Teegan
Ours, offered as ours. The Welsh side is worth its own paragraph: teg means fair or beautiful in Welsh, and tegan is the diminutive — the ordinary modern word for a toy, and an older term of endearment for a child. Irish Tadhgán, meanwhile, is a little poet. A darling and a poet meeting at the same six sounds is a good accident, and English readers cannot tell which they are looking at.
Meaningscholars disagree
little poet; or darling
Irish Tadhgán is a diminutive of Tadhg, a poet. Welsh tegan means a toy or a darling and is a separate name. The two are unrelated and English spelling collapses them.
Pronouncing Teegan
TEE-gan
Two syllables, first stressed. Some families say TAY-gan.
Nicknames for Teegan
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
- 1985
- Most girls named
- 2016146 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1541reached in 2016
- Change vs 2024
- −18.2%36 in 2025, from 44
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.
Teegan in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tegan in Welsh — related form
- Teagan in English — spelling variant
- Tadhgán in Irish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Ohio, Texas.
Teegans among us
people named Teegan are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 44,646 born in 2025 was named Teegan
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Teegan
- #3975
- Teegan on the 2025 chart
- #844
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Teegan went to 36 girls in 2025, but Tegan is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 116, which makes it the 844th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,131 places above the chart.
- Tegan80
- Teegan36
About 1 girl in 13,856 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 44,646 for Teegan itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Nicholle test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Teegan's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Nicholle climbed just as high around 1972, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Nicholle's path sketches the road Teegan is walking now.
Teegan 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 Teegan is headed
Teegan is easing off slowly — about 25% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium 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.
Teegan beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Teegan in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Two real Celtic traditions, Irish and Welsh, stand behind the sound.
- Read correctly on sight by most English speakers.
- Six letters and two syllables, quick to write.
- Teagan is the standard spelling and will be written for her.
- The first vowel is unsettled between TEE and TAY.
- Teegan, Teagan, Teigan and Tegan are four live spellings of one sound.
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Frequently asked
- How many Teegans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,000 people named Teegan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Teegan?
- Teegan is one of 2 recorded spellings. Tegan is the more common one — 80 births in 2025 against 36 for Teegan.
- How popular is the name Teegan in 2025?
- Teegan ranks #3975 among US girl names in 2025, with 36 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Teegan?
- About 1 in every 44,646 US girls born in 2025 was named Teegan — 36 in all.
- Will my child share the name Teegan with classmates?
- Teegan will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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