Teagan

Where Teagan comes from

* (male): A diminutive of the Irish male name Tadhg, from tadhg (“poet”) * (female): A variant of Tegan, from Welsh tegan (“pet, darling”)
— Wiktionary's entry for Teagan
  • Irish
  • Welsh
  • From a surname
Along the way
  1. 1979
    First appearance
    #9,010 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1997
    Teagan Micah born
    Australian association football player
  3. 2004
    Teagan Croft born
    Australian actress
  4. 2016
    Peak, #150
    2,045 babies named Teagan — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2023
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #308.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Irish.
  • A female given name from Welsh, variant of Tegan.
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
Namesakes
  • Teagan Croft · Australian actress, born 2004
  • Teagan Micah · Australian association football player, born 1997
  • Teagan Levi · Australian rugby union player, born 2003
  • Teagan Kavan · American softball player, born 2005
  • Teagan Summers · American pornographic actress, born 1990

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.