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Teige

Boys' name

Form of Tadhg

Teige has been given to 66 babies in the U.S. since 2002. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2004, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Teige, 2013

1 in 608,000

Teige over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Teige: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Tadhg

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Teige means

Teige is a form of Tadhg.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Teige is used in Irish (Rare).

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Teige → Tadhg. The family’s meaning is “poet”, recorded in Irish with the source elements tadg.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tadhg.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 66 boys were recorded with the name Teige between 2002 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2004; its best national rank was #7,460 in 2004.

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 Teige?

Teige had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 608,000
6 of 3,645,938 births
Among boys only
1 in 315,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
421,196 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Teige sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2013 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 421,196 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Teige. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Teiges were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Teige was born before 2006 — so the typical Teige is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
83.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
66
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 83.3% of all recorded uses (55).

Is Teige 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2004 (10)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,460
2004

Spellings of Teige

Teige is not the most common spelling — Leigh is, with 20.4% against Teige's 0.26%.

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.

Teige around the world

Where Teige 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
    1999–1999
    #2,943
    in 1999

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Teige by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,460
2004
Peak year
2004
10 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
66
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Teige

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

TaigeTeionTeiganKaigeBigeTeigTeigenSaigeCaigeTeiEligeTeinEldrigeTigeCraigeShigeTeighanGaigePaigeLigeKhyligePrestige

Sibling names for Teige

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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