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 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 19,116 of them was named Tegan, which outranked 89.6% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,866Michael95
- #1,866Saylor95
- #1,866Shyanna95
- #1,887Tegan94
- #1,887Destanie94
- #1,887Eboni94
- #1,887Ileana94
- #1,897Adria93
- #1,897Alaysha93
- #1,897Callista93
Tied with 9 names at #1,887; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 39,623 of them was named Tegan, which outranked 82.7% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,125Wolfgang50
- #2,125Yakov50
- #2,125Zaine50
- #2,155Tegan49
- #2,155Aakash49
- #2,155Amaan49
- #2,155Antoni49
- #2,195Ace48
- #2,195Alfonzo48
- #2,195Apollo48
Tied with 39 names at #2,155; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.