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Teagen vs Teara

American parents have registered 1,581 Teagens since 1880, against 1,260 Tearas. Teagen is still ahead, with 18 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Teagen against Teara, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Teagen Teara

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 57 years in which either name was published, Teara for 33 years and Teagen for 24 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Teagen Teara
Total US births 1,5811,260
Most in one year 9973
Babies in 2025 18under 5
Estimated living today 1,6001,200
Median age today 1433
Peak year 20111990
Best rank 2,989th girls1,905th girls
Rank in 2025 8,860thunranked
First recorded 19851968
Girls / boys 850 / 7311,260 / 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 Tearas alive today are over 33; half the Teagens are over 14. That is 19 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.

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