Teegan
Masculine · “poet”
Teegan is given to both — 1,592 boys and 2,000 girls since 1880. See Teegan as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Teegan is a spelling of Teagan, and behind it stands the Irish Tadhg — the ordinary word for a poet, and one of the commonest Irish men's names for a thousand years.
How old is the name Teegan?
Teegan first appears in US birth records in 1993 — 32 years ago. The typical Teegan alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 1,600 people named Teegan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Teegan most popular?
Teegan peaked in 2009, reaching #1497 nationally. Today it ranks #3583, 2,086 places below that high. See the whole 2009 chart.
Where it comes from
From Tadhg to Teegan
The story of Teegan
Tadhg was so common in Ireland that English speakers used it as a generic term for an Irishman, and the name produced a set of surnames — Teague, Teegan, Tighe. Quite separately, Welsh has Tegan from a word meaning fair or lovely. American use draws on both and on the -egan sound that Keegan and Reagan made familiar, and the name is given to boys and girls alike.
Meaningscholars disagree
poet
Irish Tadhg means a poet, and its diminutive Tadhgán gives the surname Ó Tadhgáin, anglicized as Teegan and Tegan. A separate Welsh Tegan, from teg meaning fair, is an unrelated women's name. Both feed the modern spelling.
How the name formed
- Tadhg
- Tadhgán
- Teegan
Related forms: Tadhgán · Tegan · Teagan
Pronouncing Teegan
TEE-gan
Two syllables, first stressed. Teegan and Teagan are said identically.
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
- 1993
- Most boys named
- 2009111 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1497reached in 2009
- Change vs 2024
- −8.8%31 in 2025, from 34
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
- Tadhgán in Irish — related form
- Tegan in Welsh — related form
- Teagan in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Indiana, Iowa.
Teegans among us
people named Teegan are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 55,099 born in 2025 was named Teegan
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Teegan
- #3583
- Teegan on the 2025 chart
- #850
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Teegan went to 31 boys in 2025, but Tegan is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 78, which makes it the 850th most-given boys’ name of the year — 2,733 places above the chart.
- Tegan47
- Teegan31
About 1 boy in 21,898 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 55,099 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 Ralston 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: Ralston climbed just as high around 1913, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Ralston'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 should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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 boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented Irish meaning that is unusually attractive — a poet.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- It works for a boy or a girl, which is useful before a birth.
- Teagan is the more common spelling and is given more often to girls in America.
- The Irish and Welsh lines have entirely different meanings.
- Being used for both sexes means forms will sometimes guess wrong.
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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 1,600 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 — 47 births in 2025 against 31 for Teegan.
- How popular is the name Teegan in 2025?
- Teegan ranks #3583 among US boy names in 2025, with 31 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Teegan?
- About 1 in every 55,099 US boys born in 2025 was named Teegan — 31 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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