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Teagan vs Teal

American parents have registered 35,016 Teagans since 1880, against 1,906 Teals. Teagan is still ahead, with 998 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Teagan against Teal, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Teagan Teal

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 69 years in which either name was published, Teagan for 36 years and Teal for 33 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Teagan Teal
Total US births 35,0161,906
Most in one year 2,22071
Babies in 2025 99826
Estimated living today 35,0001,800
Median age today 1134
Peak year 20161994
Best rank 150th girls2,079th girls
Rank in 2025 340th7,885th
First recorded 19791957
Girls / boys 29,421 / 5,5951,604 / 302

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Teals alive today are over 34; half the Teagans are over 11. That is 23 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Teagan Teal
England and Wales 2,15084

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Teagan and Teal.