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Taegan

#9,392 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Variant of Tegan

Taegan has been given to 1,500 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #9,392 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 82 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 74% girls, 26% boys all-time.

Babies named Taegan, 2025

1 in 301,000

Taegan over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Taegan over time

In 2025, Taegan went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19962025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Taegan: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Tegan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Taegan means

Taegan is a variant of Tegan.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Taegan → Tegan. The family’s meaning is “pet, darling”, recorded in English with the source elements tegan.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tegan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,109 girls were recorded with the name Taegan between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 82 in 2008; its best national rank was #2,378 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,292 in 2020 to #9,392 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,474 in 2015 to #9,392 in 2025.

In the United States, 391 boys were recorded with the name Taegan between 1999 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 30 in 2011; its best national rank was #3,588 in 2011.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Taegan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,392
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Taegan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Taegan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Taegans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Taegan was born before 2009 — so the typical Taegan is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
48.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,109
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Choose a decade

2000s — 48.3% of all recorded uses (536).

Is Taegan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,017
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,100
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,918
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.24×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
13.4%
Peak was 2008 (82)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,378
2008

Spellings of Taegan

Taegan is not the most common spelling — Megan is, with 79.8% against Taegan's 0.20%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Taegan is used

Across 1910–2025, Taegan was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 496,960 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Indiana1 in —
  6. 6Kansas1 in —
  7. 7Kentucky1 in —
  8. 8Michigan1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Taegan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Taegan around the world

Where Taegan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2017
    #5,765
    in 2017
  • Canada
    1997–2011
    #3,211
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1983–2004
    #700
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Taegan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,392
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,100
Best rank ever
#2,378
2008
Peak year
2008
82 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,109
Count in 2025
11

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,588
2011
Peak year
2011
30 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
391
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Taegan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Taegan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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