Teegan

#4,059 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Teegan has been given to 3,592 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #4,059 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 146 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 56% girls, 44% boys all-time.

Babies named Teegan, 2025

1 in 92,100

Teegan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Teegan over time

In 2025, Teegan went to 54% girls and 46% boys.

19852025

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.

Teegan: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Teegan means

Teegan is a given name.

The naming story behind Teegan

Wikidata records Teegan as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q7694205, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,000 girls were recorded with the name Teegan between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 146 in 2016; its best national rank was #1,542 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,021 in 2020 to #4,059 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,740 in 2015 to #4,059 in 2025.

In the United States, 1,592 boys were recorded with the name Teegan between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 111 in 2009; its best national rank was #1,509 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,718 in 2020 to #3,646 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,842 in 2015 to #3,646 in 2025.

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.

How common is Teegan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 92,100
36 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 44,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,059
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
63,832 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Teegan 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 63,832 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Teegan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Teegans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Teegan was born before 2014 — so the typical Teegan is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
54.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,000
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 54.4% of all recorded uses (1,087).

Is Teegan 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
−492
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,038
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,319
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.30×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
24.7%
Peak was 2016 (146)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,542
2016

Spellings of Teegan

Teegan is not the most common spelling — Megan is, with 66.8% against Teegan's 0.30%.

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 Teegan is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Teegan was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 31,059 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

19 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 in 11,111
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 14,286
  3. 3Arizona1 in 20,000
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 20,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 25,000
  6. 6Oregon1 in 25,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 25,000
  8. 8Virginia1 in 25,000

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.

Where Teegan is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Teegan was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 130,465 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in 25,000
  2. 2Utah1 in 33,333
  3. 3Indiana1 in 50,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 100,000
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 100,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 100,000
  7. 7California1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Teegan around the world

Where Teegan 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
    1996–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2001–2015
    #806
    in 2015
  • Ireland
    1999–2024
    #898
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,672
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1980–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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

Teegan by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,059
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,038
Best rank ever
#1,542
2016
Peak year
2016
146 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,000
Count in 2025
36

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,646
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 72
Best rank ever
#1,509
2009
Peak year
2009
111 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,592
Count in 2025
31

Names similar to Teegan

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

Names with a curve like Teegan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Teegan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

Sibling names for Teegan

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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