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Tegan

Feminine · “fair”

Tegan is given to both — 6,789 girls and 2,574 boys since 1880. See Tegan as a boy nameSee other names given to both

1957high 2011
#2276 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare80 girls in 2025

Tegan is fair or beautiful in Welsh — teg — and it was a man's name in the medieval Welsh triads.

How old is the name Tegan?

Tegan first appears in US birth records in 1957 — 68 years ago. The typical Tegan alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 6,700 people named Tegan are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Tegan most popular?

Tegan peaked in 2011, reaching #777 nationally. Today it ranks #2276, 1,499 places below that high. See the whole 2011 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Tegan

Tegau Eurfron is named among the three faithful wives of Arthur's court in the Welsh triads, and her mantle would not fit an unfaithful woman. Tegan revived as a Welsh girls' name in the twentieth century and spread through Australia and Britain. It appears in American records in current use.

Meaning

fair, beautiful

From the Welsh teg, 'fair' or 'beautiful', with a diminutive. Tegan appears in medieval Welsh sources, and Tegau Eurfron is one of the three faithful wives of the triads. The Welsh is ordinary vocabulary and the reading undisputed.

How the name formed

  1. teg
  2. Tegan

Related forms: Tegan · Teagan · Tadhgán

Pronouncing Tegan

TEE-gun

Two syllables, stress on the first. Welsh says TEG-an with a shorter first vowel.

Nicknames for Tegan

Moderate

TegThe root word, which is the Welsh for fair
TegsAn affectionate plural clipping, used inside families
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 1957–202535017503508019572025

US babies named Tegan per year from 1957 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#7771950s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1957
Most girls named
2011350 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#777reached in 2011
Change vs 2024
−15.8%80 in 2025, from 95
Tegan sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2011, with 350 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

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.

Tegan in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • Tegan in Welsh — same name
  • Teagan in English — spelling variant
  • Tadhgán in Irish — related form

Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.

Tegans among us

6,700

people named Tegan are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 20,091 born in 2025 was named Tegan

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Tegan

#2276
Tegan on the 2025 chart
#844
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Tegan went to 80 girls in 2025, but Teegan 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 — 1,432 places above the chart.

About 1 girl in 13,856 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 20,091 for Tegan 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

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Is it right for you

The Bernardine test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tegan's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Bernardine climbed just as high around 1931, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Bernardine's path sketches the road Tegan is walking now.

40%chance Tegan will feel “very 2010s” by 2040
Tegan, aligned on its peakBernardine· peak 1931not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-40 yrs+40 yrsBernardine · #7045Tegan today
Tegan today is about where Bernardine stood in 1945 — 14 years past a #777-sized peak. By 1960, Bernardine had settled around #3255.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Tegan 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 Tegan is headed

19572030

US babies named Tegan per year, 1957 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Tegan is easing off slowly — about 28% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.

Cooling-28% by 2030projected around #2,997 in 2030

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.

Tegan beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Tegan in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Teganthis name80#2276Johana80#2276Haizley80#2276Nyah80#2276Leonie80#2276

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • The fair meaning is transparent, ordinary Welsh and undisputed.
  • The mantle of Tegau Eurfron is a first-rate piece of Welsh legend.
  • Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk in English.
What to consider
  • Welsh and English say the first vowel differently.
  • Teagan is the commoner American spelling.
  • An Irish Tadhgán is a separate name often conflated with it.

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Frequently asked

How many Tegans are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 6,700 people named Tegan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Tegan?
Tegan is the most-used spelling in US records — 80 of the 116 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Teegan.
How popular is the name Tegan in 2025?
Tegan ranks #2276 among US girl names in 2025, with 80 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Tegan?
About 1 in every 20,091 US girls born in 2025 was named Tegan — 80 in all.
Will my child share the name Tegan with classmates?
Tegan will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Tegan

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Johana#2276 · Haizley#2276 · Nyah#2276 · Leonie#2276 · Lavinia#2276 · Analise#2276 · Ollie#2276 · Sayla#2276

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