# Teagan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/teagan/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | Irish |
| Meaning | “poet”, “pet”, “darling” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Tegan |
| US babies named this | 35,016 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,595 / 29,421 (84% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,150, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

* (male): A diminutive of the Irish male name Tadhg, from tadhg (“poet”) * (female): A variant of Tegan, from Welsh tegan (“pet, darling”)

## What it means

Teagan is grouped under love.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,473 | 214 |
| 2012 | 1,244 | 259 |
| 2013 | 1,226 | 264 |
| 2014 | 1,285 | 254 |
| 2015 | 1,439 | 231 |
| 2016 | 2,045 | 150 |
| 2017 | 1,733 | 175 |
| 2018 | 1,657 | 178 |
| 2019 | 1,600 | 185 |
| 2020 | 1,501 | 192 |
| 2021 | 1,215 | 255 |
| 2022 | 1,108 | 286 |
| 2023 | 998 | 308 |
| 2024 | 942 | 332 |
| 2025 | 894 | 341 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 295 | 762 |
| 2012 | 304 | 753 |
| 2013 | 222 | 924 |
| 2014 | 214 | 980 |
| 2015 | 202 | 1,011 |
| 2016 | 175 | 1,120 |
| 2017 | 149 | 1,234 |
| 2018 | 148 | 1,253 |
| 2019 | 144 | 1,294 |
| 2020 | 133 | 1,346 |
| 2021 | 125 | 1,449 |
| 2022 | 129 | 1,424 |
| 2023 | 136 | 1,378 |
| 2024 | 124 | 1,469 |
| 2025 | 104 | 1,631 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 141 | 340 |
| 2012 | 111 | 412 |
| 2013 | 73 | 561 |
| 2014 | 67 | 608 |
| 2015 | 47 | 809 |
| 2016 | 41 | 897 |
| 2017 | 35 | 1,021 |
| 2018 | 29 | 1,170 |
| 2019 | 21 | 1,439 |
| 2020 | 17 | 1,687 |
| 2021 | 24 | 1,311 |
| 2022 | 18 | 1,621 |
| 2023 | 22 | 1,410 |
| 2024 | 12 | 2,253 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2,605 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 4 | 2,587 |
| 2003 | 6 | 2,189 |
| 2004 | 5 | 2,578 |
| 2005 | 4 | 3,208 |
| 2007 | 7 | 2,435 |
| 2008 | 7 | 2,507 |
| 2009 | 3 | 4,527 |
| 2010 | 5 | 3,332 |
| 2011 | 7 | 2,613 |
| 2012 | 5 | 3,416 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4,789 |

## People named Teagan

- Teagan Croft, Australian actress
- Teagan Micah, Australian association football player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.