Tegan
#2,276 for girls in 2025, 80 births · #2,718 for boys in 2025, 47 births
Given to girls 72.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2011 · 350 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,789since 1957
Tegan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,276 | 80 | #2,718 | 47 |
| 2024 | #2,040 | 95 | #2,476 | 55 |
| 2023 | #1,826 | 110 | #2,362 | 58 |
| 2022 | #1,677 | 125 | #2,438 | 57 |
| 2021 | #1,337 | 166 | #2,060 | 71 |
| 2020 | #1,231 | 185 | #2,167 | 64 |
| 2019 | #1,170 | 204 | #1,899 | 78 |
| 2018 | #1,075 | 236 | #1,823 | 83 |
| 2017 | #969 | 271 | #1,809 | 83 |
| 2016 | #902 | 308 | #1,799 | 84 |
| 2015 | #949 | 286 | #1,468 | 114 |
| 2014 | #850 | 324 | #1,873 | 78 |
| 2013 | #853 | 304 | #1,563 | 100 |
| 2012 | #999 | 253 | #1,535 | 104 |
| 2011 | #777 | 350 | #1,601 | 96 |
| 2010 | #939 | 275 | #1,284 | 135 |
| 2009 | #1,019 | 257 | #1,138 | 161 |
| 2008 | #1,070 | 244 | #1,146 | 158 |
| 2007 | #1,387 | 173 | #971 | 202 |
| 2006 | #1,514 | 145 | #1,163 | 145 |
| 2005 | #1,462 | 145 | #1,170 | 136 |
| 2004 | #1,464 | 138 | #1,629 | 79 |
| 2003 | #1,439 | 137 | #1,936 | 60 |
| 2002 | #1,887 | 94 | #2,155 | 49 |
| 2001 | #1,660 | 109 | #2,151 | 48 |
| 2000 | #1,869 | 91 | #2,805 | 32 |
| 1999 | #1,962 | 80 | #2,665 | 32 |
| 1998 | #1,940 | 78 | #2,782 | 29 |
| 1997 | #1,884 | 78 | #3,601 | 19 |
| 1996 | #1,964 | 72 | #4,396 | 14 |
| 1995 | #2,155 | 62 | #4,052 | 15 |
| 1994 | #2,295 | 57 | #3,215 | 21 |
| 1993 | #2,176 | 61 | #4,697 | 12 |
| 1992 | #1,928 | 72 | #4,114 | 14 |
| 1991 | #2,136 | 62 | #5,521 | 9 |
| 1990 | #1,605 | 93 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #1,397 | 107 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,551 | 85 | #5,200 | 8 |
| 1987 | #1,300 | 107 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #1,224 | 112 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,118 | 129 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #1,414 | 82 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | #2,097 | 47 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,959 | 30 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,488 | 38 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,391 | 40 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,832 | 58 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,680 | 31 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,838 | 28 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,188 | 22 | — | |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 | — | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
| 1973 | #5,580 | 9 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,793 | 11 | — | |
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| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Tegan! It came in at #6,086, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1957–1966, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Tegan is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Ohio#1,251 · 1 in 7,799
- Pennsylvania#1,385 · 1 in 9,267
- North Carolina#1,465 · 1 in 9,244
- California#2,037 · 1 in 16,566
- Florida#2,120 · 1 in 17,261
Best ever in a state: #203 in North Dakota, 2013.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | #1,251 | 6 | 1 in 7,799 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,385 | 5 | 1 in 9,267 |
| North Carolina | #1,465 | 5 | 1 in 9,244 |
| California | #2,037 | 10 | 1 in 16,566 |
| Florida | #2,120 | 5 | 1 in 17,261 |
| Texas | #2,965 | 6 | 1 in 27,228 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Tegan
- 236 spots since 2024 (#2,040 → #2,276)
- 1,045 spots since 2020 (#1,231 → #2,276)
- 1,327 spots since 2015 (#949 → #2,276)
- Biggest jump: 162 spots in 2011 (#939 → #777)
- Biggest drop: 222 spots in 2012 (#777 → #999)
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 2011 at #777 (350 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 2010–2017
- Highest: 1 in 5,026 girls born in 2011 were named Tegan (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 20,091 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 41.4% of all girls named Tegan (2,811) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2007, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #6,086 (1957) | #6,086 |
| 1960s | 14 | #5,147 (1968) | #5,595 |
| 1970s | 173 | #1,832 (1979) | #4,459 |
| 1980s | 777 | #1,118 (1985) | #1,794 |
| 1990s | 715 | #1,605 (1990) | #2,005 |
| 2000s | 1,533 | #1,019 (2009) | #1,477 |
| 2010s | 2,811 | #777 (2011) | #948 |
| 2020s | 761 | #1,231 (2020) | #1,731 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tegan in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 17,055 of them was named Tegan, which outranked 88.5% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,033Mariyah96
- #2,033Nahomy96
- #2,033Saraya96
- #2,040Tegan95
- #2,040Alaysia95
- #2,040Azalia95
- #2,040Caliana95
- #2,053Adah94
- #2,053Alaiah94
- #2,053Aulani94
Tied with 12 names at #2,040; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 31,325 of them was named Tegan, which outranked 82.7% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,444Triston56
- #2,444Valentine56
- #2,444Zaki56
- #2,476Tegan55
- #2,476Ahmari55
- #2,476Avyay55
- #2,476Buck55
- #2,502Advait54
- #2,502Ahsan54
- #2,502Akira54
Tied with 25 names at #2,476; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.