Meaning not yet researched.
Teal: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,000 in 1961.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,000 in 1961; #8,308 in 2025. About 50% of babies named Teal in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,308 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1961, at #2,000.
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Teal: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,000 in 1961 · most girls in one year: 66 (1994).
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Teal, making it the 8,308th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,690 places from #6,618 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 18 girls named Teal in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,000, reached in 1961. The most girls given the name in a single year was 66, in 1994. For comparison, it was #5,640 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 13 US boys were named Teal, making it the 6,760th most common boys’ name of the year, up 943 places from #7,703 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 11 boys named Teal in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,050, reached in 1970. The most boys given the name in a single year was 16, in 2021. For comparison, it was #8,663 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Teal in 69 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 14 babies. In all, 1,906 US babies have been given the name, 84% of them girls and 16% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 515 babies named Teal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 190 US girls were named Teal; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 24. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Tell, Tel and Teale are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tell (206), Tel (194), Teale (116), Till (51), Teel (18), Thell (11), Thel (5), Tyell (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 Teal 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 | 13 | #8,308 | 13 | #6,760 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,618 | 11 | #7,703 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,389 | 10 | #8,192 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,447 | 8 | #9,734 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,553 | 16 | #5,748 |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,062 | 9 | #8,657 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,160 | 7 | #10,689 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,984 | 16 | #5,746 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,804 | 9 | #8,760 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,203 | — | — |
| 2015 | 24 | #5,640 | 9 | #8,663 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,189 | 5 | #13,838 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,346 | 9 | #8,694 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,431 | — | — |
| 2011 | 10 | #11,120 | — | — |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,174 | 6 | #12,049 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,579 | 7 | #10,842 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,740 | — | — |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,759 | — | — |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,350 | — | — |
| 2005 | 11 | #10,069 | — | — |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,532 | — | — |
| 2003 | 12 | #9,006 | — | — |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,799 | — | — |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,303 | — | — |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,991 | — | — |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,858 | 5 | #11,424 |
| 1998 | 17 | #6,047 | 6 | #9,521 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,886 | — | — |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,141 | 9 | #6,438 |
| 1995 | 42 | #2,875 | 13 | #4,758 |
| 1994 | 66 | #2,100 | 5 | #10,095 |
| 1993 | 52 | #2,449 | 12 | #4,958 |
| 1992 | 56 | #2,347 | 7 | #7,318 |
| 1991 | 64 | #2,109 | 6 | #8,137 |
| 1990 | 57 | #2,256 | 8 | #6,351 |
| 1989 | 51 | #2,336 | 9 | #5,552 |
| 1988 | 54 | #2,150 | 8 | #5,689 |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,714 | 5 | #8,021 |
| 1986 | 46 | #2,263 | 7 | #5,872 |
| 1985 | 54 | #2,018 | 7 | #5,705 |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,842 | 8 | #4,915 |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,649 | 5 | #7,226 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,247 | — | — |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,717 | 6 | #6,168 |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,206 | 8 | #4,895 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,530 | 6 | #5,969 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,931 | 5 | #6,666 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,917 | — | — |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,216 | — | — |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,087 | — | — |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,993 | — | — |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,834 | — | — |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,498 | — | — |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,493 | — | — |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,370 | 11 | #3,050 |
| 1969 | 10 | #5,019 | — | — |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,593 | 5 | #4,679 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,589 | — | — |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,828 | — | — |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,142 | 6 | #3,886 |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,814 | — | — |
| 1963 | 19 | #2,948 | — | — |
| 1962 | 24 | #2,531 | — | — |
| 1961 | 35 | #2,000 | — | — |
| 1960 | 28 | #2,240 | — | — |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,586 | — | — |
| 1958 | 28 | #2,160 | — | — |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,291 | — | — |
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).