# Tegan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/tegan/  
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 | Welsh |
| Meaning | “pet”, “darling” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈtiːɡən/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Teagan |
| US babies named this | 9,363 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,574 / 6,789 (73% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 6,703, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

* (female): 20th-century coinage from Welsh tegan (“pet, darling”). * (surname): Transferred use of Irish Ó Tadhgáin, a surname. * (male): From Teagan, from a diminutive of Irish Tadhg.

## What it means

Tegan 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 | 350 | 780 |
| 2012 | 253 | 1,004 |
| 2013 | 304 | 854 |
| 2014 | 324 | 850 |
| 2015 | 286 | 951 |
| 2016 | 308 | 904 |
| 2017 | 271 | 971 |
| 2018 | 236 | 1,079 |
| 2019 | 204 | 1,172 |
| 2020 | 185 | 1,235 |
| 2021 | 166 | 1,341 |
| 2022 | 125 | 1,682 |
| 2023 | 110 | 1,834 |
| 2024 | 95 | 2,052 |
| 2025 | 80 | 2,297 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 96 | 1,609 |
| 2012 | 104 | 1,540 |
| 2013 | 100 | 1,567 |
| 2014 | 78 | 1,881 |
| 2015 | 114 | 1,472 |
| 2016 | 84 | 1,809 |
| 2017 | 83 | 1,817 |
| 2018 | 83 | 1,835 |
| 2019 | 78 | 1,913 |
| 2020 | 64 | 2,183 |
| 2021 | 71 | 2,078 |
| 2022 | 57 | 2,464 |
| 2023 | 58 | 2,384 |
| 2024 | 55 | 2,499 |
| 2025 | 47 | 2,751 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 262 | 196 |
| 2012 | 224 | 222 |
| 2013 | 132 | 343 |
| 2014 | 130 | 354 |
| 2015 | 96 | 449 |
| 2016 | 72 | 585 |
| 2017 | 47 | 814 |
| 2018 | 36 | 990 |
| 2019 | 32 | 1,063 |
| 2020 | 25 | 1,267 |
| 2021 | 29 | 1,161 |
| 2022 | 19 | 1,556 |
| 2023 | 21 | 1,469 |
| 2024 | 17 | 1,743 |
| 2025 | 14 | 2,006 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 4 | 2,501 |
| 2001 | 8 | 1,595 |
| 2002 | 4 | 2,636 |
| 2003 | 5 | 2,470 |
| 2004 | 5 | 2,578 |
| 2005 | 16 | 1,246 |
| 2006 | 10 | 1,744 |
| 2007 | 8 | 2,211 |
| 2008 | 8 | 2,276 |
| 2009 | 7 | 2,544 |
| 2010 | 10 | 2,036 |
| 2011 | 6 | 2,892 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,039 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,270 |

## People named Tegan

- Tegan Moss, Canadian actress

## 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.