Teal

Where Teal comes from

Teal hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1957
    First appearance
    #3,150 among girls, 14 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1961
    Peak, #1,955
    35 babies named Teal — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,050.
  4. 1971
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Teal hasn't yet.

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.