Meaning not yet researched.
Taegan: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,378 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,378 in 2008; #9,395 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Taegan in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,395 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #2,378.
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Taegan: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,378 in 2008 · most girls in one year: 82 (2008).
In 2025, 11 US girls were named Taegan, making it the 9,395th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,015 places from #8,380 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 13 girls named Taegan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,378, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 82. For comparison, it was #3,474 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Taegan in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #3,589, reached in 2011. That year also had the most boys given the name: 30. For comparison, it was #6,275 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Taegan in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1996 with 13 babies. In all, 1,500 US babies have been given the name, 74% of them girls and 26% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 728 babies named Taegan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 240 US girls were named Taegan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 51. In 2025 that was about 1 in 146,115 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Taygen, Tagen and Taegen are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Taygen (389), Tagen (265), Taegen (227), Taygan (208), Tagan (117), Taigen (62), Taigan (61), Taigon (5), Taegyn (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Taegan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,395 | — | — |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,380 | 5 | #13,998 |
| 2023 | 14 | #8,010 | 7 | #10,671 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,957 | 7 | #10,716 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,480 | — | — |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,296 | 5 | #13,808 |
| 2019 | 27 | #5,022 | 10 | #8,135 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,549 | 14 | #6,298 |
| 2017 | 46 | #3,431 | 19 | #5,087 |
| 2016 | 51 | #3,222 | 14 | #6,307 |
| 2015 | 46 | #3,474 | 14 | #6,275 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,916 | 16 | #5,687 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,841 | 7 | #10,592 |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,845 | 18 | #5,217 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,599 | 30 | #3,589 |
| 2010 | 61 | #2,867 | 23 | #4,346 |
| 2009 | 57 | #3,043 | 23 | #4,416 |
| 2008 | 82 | #2,378 | 29 | #3,730 |
| 2007 | 70 | #2,641 | 19 | #4,961 |
| 2006 | 51 | #3,255 | 21 | #4,495 |
| 2005 | 43 | #3,499 | 20 | #4,443 |
| 2004 | 61 | #2,708 | 13 | #6,093 |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,519 | 17 | #4,785 |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,140 | 24 | #3,654 |
| 2001 | 54 | #2,763 | 17 | #4,651 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,069 | 9 | #7,329 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,855 | 10 | #6,454 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,974 | — | — |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,803 | — | — |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,086 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).