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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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 1986
Top girls' names in 1986
More about 1986
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1,715,547 girls got a published name in 1986; 1 in 15,317 of them was named Tegan, which outranked 90.5% of the 12,836 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,219Rhea113
- #1,219Saundra113
- #1,219Shavonne113
- #1,224Tegan112
- #1,224Anais112
- #1,224Asha112
- #1,224Drew112
- #1,233Chantell111
- #1,233Elicia111
- #1,233Fawn111
Tied with 8 names at #1,224; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.