How rare is the name Tegan?

7,995 people in the United States have the first name Tegan, about 1 in 37,778. It ranks #2,875 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

TEGAN

#2,875

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
7,995
About
1 in 37,778
This common or more
81.1%
Who bears it

Of the 7,995 people named Tegan, 78.6% reported their origin as White, 7.7% as two or more races and 7.1% as Hispanic or Latino. 73% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Tegan peaked in 2011, when 446 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19572025
Peak year
2011
Births that year
446
In 2025*
127 ▼72%
Recorded as
mostly female

At least 9,363 babies have been given the name since 1957. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Tegan by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #1,412. The largest share of babies named Tegan, 44.1%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1950s#14,8235
1960s#13,57414
1970s#5,875173
1980s#2,487801
1990s#2,884888
2000s#1,6952,603
2010s#1,4123,766
2020s#2,3481,113
Baby boom 1946–640.1%
Generation X 1965–802.4%
Millennials 1981–9614.2%
Generation Z 1997–1244.1%
2013 and later39.2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Tegan is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Tegan has been most common in Colorado (3.4×), Utah (2.9×), and Washington (2.2×), and least common in New Jersey (0.23×).

5,159 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Tegan

#2,873 Jules · 8,010#2,874 Scottie · 8,009#2,876 Yosef · 7,990#2,877 Lyndon · 7,982

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Tegan, most common first.

#1,369 Teagan · 26,042#5,865 Teegan · 2,824#9,763 Teigan · 1,404#24,274 Teghan · 398#43,660 Tejan · 161

Also a last name

As a last name, Tegan ranks #107,521 of 156,621, with 176 people. See Tegan as a last name

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