Teal
#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births · #6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births
Given to girls 84.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1961 · 35 births
- Debut · girls
- 14 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,604since 1957
Teal 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,885 | 13 | #6,446 | 13 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 | #7,257 | 11 |
| 2023 | #6,169 | 19 | #7,738 | 10 |
| 2022 | #5,309 | 24 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #5,398 | 23 | #5,562 | 16 |
| 2020 | #5,850 | 20 | #8,067 | 9 |
| 2019 | #5,986 | 20 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #5,785 | 21 | #5,540 | 16 |
| 2017 | #7,442 | 15 | #8,140 | 9 |
| 2016 | #6,901 | 17 | — | |
| 2015 | #5,458 | 24 | #8,040 | 9 |
| 2014 | #5,993 | 21 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #7,031 | 17 | #8,118 | 9 |
| 2012 | #7,144 | 17 | — | |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 | — | |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #9,864 | 7 |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 | — | |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 | — | |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 | — | |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 | — | |
| 2004 | #10,690 | 9 | — | |
| 2003 | #8,505 | 12 | — | |
| 2002 | #8,280 | 12 | — | |
| 2001 | #8,758 | 11 | — | |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 | — | |
| 1999 | #4,718 | 23 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #5,799 | 17 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | #3,815 | 29 | — | |
| 1996 | #3,093 | 38 | #5,982 | 9 |
| 1995 | #2,845 | 42 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | #2,079 | 66 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #2,417 | 52 | #4,697 | 12 |
| 1992 | #2,318 | 56 | #6,670 | 7 |
| 1991 | #2,092 | 64 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #2,234 | 57 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #2,304 | 51 | #5,165 | 9 |
| 1988 | #2,131 | 54 | #5,200 | 8 |
| 1987 | #2,657 | 37 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #2,228 | 46 | #5,332 | 7 |
| 1985 | #1,997 | 54 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #2,781 | 32 | #4,552 | 8 |
| 1983 | #2,595 | 34 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #3,172 | 27 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,657 | 34 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #3,134 | 27 | #4,495 | 8 |
| 1979 | #3,442 | 23 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | #5,563 | 11 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | #4,652 | 14 | — | |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 | — | |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 | — | |
| 1974 | #4,720 | 12 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,586 | 12 | — | |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 | — | |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 | #2,891 | 11 |
| 1969 | #4,723 | 10 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,456 | 15 | #4,136 | 5 |
| 1967 | #4,300 | 10 | — | |
| 1966 | #4,493 | 9 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,050 | 17 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1964 | #2,752 | 21 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,864 | 19 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,463 | 24 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,955 | 35 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,196 | 28 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,517 | 21 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,117 | 28 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,150 | 14 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Teal! It came in at #3,150, and was given to 14 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1976, when fewer than 13 girls a year got the name.
See more about Teal
- 1,491 spots since 2024 (#6,394 → #7,885)
- 2,035 spots since 2020 (#5,850 → #7,885)
- 2,427 spots since 2015 (#5,458 → #7,885)
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 1961 at #1,955 (35 births)
- Births halved by 1965, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 27,057 girls born in 1994 were named Teal (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,955 in 1961, was only 1 in 57,671 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.7% of all girls named Teal (444) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1970, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 63 | #2,117 (1958) | #2,595 |
| 1960s | 188 | #1,955 (1961) | #3,225 |
| 1970s | 116 | #3,442 (1979) | #5,221 |
| 1980s | 396 | #1,997 (1985) | #2,566 |
| 1990s | 444 | #2,079 (1994) | #3,141 |
| 2000s | 108 | #7,580 (2000) | #9,652 |
| 2010s | 172 | #5,458 (2015) | #7,257 |
| 2020s | 117 | #5,309 (2022) | #6,168 |
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.
Teal in 1957
Top girls' names in 1957
More about 1957
girls
2,044,851 girls got a published name in 1957; 1 in 146,061 of them was named Teal, which outranked 55.1% of the 7,015 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,033Vici15
- #3,033Violetta15
- #3,033Wanetta15
- #3,150Teal14
- #3,150Alvena14
- #3,150Alvera14
- #3,150Ariane14
- #3,309Aleatha13
- #3,309Aleen13
- #3,309Alfred13
Tied with 158 names at #3,150; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.