Teal
#8,306 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Teal has been given to 1,906 babies in the U.S. since 1957. In 2025 it ranked #8,306 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 66 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 84% girls, 16% boys all-time.
Babies named Teal, 2025
1 in 255,000
Teal over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Teal over time
In 2025, Teal went to 50% girls and 50% boys.
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.
How common is Teal?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 124,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #8,306
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,762 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Teal sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Teal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Teals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Teal was born before 1990 — so the typical Teal is around 35 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 27.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 23.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,604
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 27.7% of all recorded uses (444).
Is Teal 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
- −1,691
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,248
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,668
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.54×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 19.7%
- Peak was 1994 (66)
- Years since peak
- 31
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.9% average annual change
Spellings of Teal
Teal is not the most common spelling — Jean is, with 37.7% against Teal's 0.13%.
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 Teal is used
Across 1910–2025, Teal was most concentrated in Montana — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 275,924 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Teal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Teal around the world
Where Teal 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 & Wales1996–2023#5,688in 2023
- Canada1991–2015#3,185in 2015
- South Australia2012–2012#871in 2012
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.
Teal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Teal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Teal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.