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Teagan vs Teala

American parents have registered 35,016 Teagans since 1880, against 523 Tealas. Teagan is still ahead, with 998 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Teagan Teala

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 63 years in which either name was published, Teagan for 43 years and Teala for 20 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Teagan Teala
Total US births 35,016523
Most in one year 2,22041
Babies in 2025 998under 5
Estimated living today 35,000500
Median age today 1137
Peak year 20161985
Best rank 150th girls2,398th girls
Rank in 2025 340thunranked
First recorded 19791946
Girls / boys 29,421 / 5,595523 / 0

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 Tealas alive today are over 37; half the Teagans are over 11. That is 26 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Teagan Teala
England and Wales 2,1503

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 Teala.