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 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
girls
1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 36,148 of them was named Teal, which outranked 84.2% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,278Tynisha52
- #2,278Yael52
- #2,278Zaira52
- #2,304Teal51
- #2,304Blythe51
- #2,304Bobby51
- #2,304Brie51
- #2,338Alli50
- #2,338Amani50
- #2,338Andreanna50
Tied with 33 names at #2,304; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 222,325 of them was named Teal, which outranked 44.1% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,811Zerrick10
- #4,811Zoe10
- #4,811Zuri10
- #5,165Teal9
- #5,165Abdallah9
- #5,165Abiel9
- #5,165Abrahim9
- #5,615Abdel8
- #5,615Abdias8
- #5,615Abed8
Tied with 449 names at #5,165; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.