Meaning not yet researched.
Tegan: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 80 in 2025. Its best rank was #780 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #780 in 2011; #2,297 in 2025. About 63% of babies named Tegan in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,297 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #780.
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Tegan: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 80 girls in 2025. Peak: #780 in 2011 · most girls in one year: 350 (2011).
In 2025, 80 US girls were named Tegan, making it the 2,297th most common girls’ name of the year, down 245 places from #2,052 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 95 girls named Tegan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #780, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 350. For comparison, it was #951 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 47 US boys were named Tegan, making it the 2,751st most common boys’ name of the year, down 252 places from #2,499 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 55 boys named Tegan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #975, reached in 2007. That year also had the most boys given the name: 202. For comparison, it was #1,472 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tegan in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 5 babies. In all, 9,363 US babies have been given the name, 73% of them girls and 27% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,766 babies named Tegan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,780 US girls were named Tegan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 308. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,091 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Tegan ranked highest in Indiana in 2025, at #1,191 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Teagan (35,016 babies since 1880), Teegan (3,592 babies since 1880), Teigan (2,187 babies since 1880) and Teagen (1,581 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tiegen 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Welsh. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tiegen (11).
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 Tegan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | 5 | #1,191 | #1,065 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,662 | #1,220 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,678 | #786 |
| New York | 5 | #2,398 | #1,748 |
| California | 5 | #3,486 | #1,139 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 80 | #2,297 | 47 | #2,751 |
| 2024 | 95 | #2,052 | 55 | #2,499 |
| 2023 | 110 | #1,834 | 58 | #2,384 |
| 2022 | 125 | #1,682 | 57 | #2,464 |
| 2021 | 166 | #1,341 | 71 | #2,078 |
| 2020 | 185 | #1,235 | 64 | #2,183 |
| 2019 | 204 | #1,172 | 78 | #1,913 |
| 2018 | 236 | #1,079 | 83 | #1,835 |
| 2017 | 271 | #971 | 83 | #1,817 |
| 2016 | 308 | #904 | 84 | #1,809 |
| 2015 | 286 | #951 | 114 | #1,472 |
| 2014 | 324 | #850 | 78 | #1,881 |
| 2013 | 304 | #854 | 100 | #1,567 |
| 2012 | 253 | #1,004 | 104 | #1,540 |
| 2011 | 350 | #780 | 96 | #1,609 |
| 2010 | 275 | #940 | 135 | #1,291 |
| 2009 | 257 | #1,022 | 161 | #1,141 |
| 2008 | 244 | #1,075 | 158 | #1,153 |
| 2007 | 173 | #1,391 | 202 | #975 |
| 2006 | 145 | #1,521 | 145 | #1,170 |
| 2005 | 145 | #1,465 | 136 | #1,180 |
| 2004 | 138 | #1,469 | 79 | #1,651 |
| 2003 | 137 | #1,444 | 60 | #1,958 |
| 2002 | 94 | #1,895 | 49 | #2,190 |
| 2001 | 109 | #1,670 | 48 | #2,181 |
| 2000 | 91 | #1,883 | 32 | #2,857 |
| 1999 | 80 | #1,974 | 32 | #2,718 |
| 1998 | 78 | #1,954 | 29 | #2,845 |
| 1997 | 78 | #1,898 | 19 | #3,720 |
| 1996 | 72 | #1,979 | 14 | #4,586 |
| 1995 | 62 | #2,186 | 15 | #4,251 |
| 1994 | 57 | #2,318 | 21 | #3,313 |
| 1993 | 61 | #2,193 | 12 | #4,959 |
| 1992 | 72 | #1,945 | 14 | #4,305 |
| 1991 | 62 | #2,160 | 9 | #5,887 |
| 1990 | 93 | #1,616 | 8 | #6,353 |
| 1989 | 107 | #1,404 | — | — |
| 1988 | 85 | #1,563 | 8 | #5,691 |
| 1987 | 107 | #1,301 | 5 | #8,024 |
| 1986 | 112 | #1,231 | — | — |
| 1985 | 129 | #1,126 | 5 | #7,478 |
| 1984 | 82 | #1,429 | 6 | #6,240 |
| 1983 | 47 | #2,129 | — | — |
| 1982 | 30 | #3,013 | — | — |
| 1981 | 38 | #2,527 | — | — |
| 1980 | 40 | #2,433 | — | — |
| 1979 | 58 | #1,854 | — | — |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,734 | — | — |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,902 | — | — |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,276 | — | — |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,428 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #10,097 | — | — |
| 1973 | 9 | #6,024 | — | — |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,069 | — | — |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,600 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,727 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,919 | — | — |
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).