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Teagen vs Tearra

American parents have registered 1,581 Teagens since 1880, against 758 Tearras. Teagen is still ahead, with 18 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Teagen Tearra

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 47 years in which either name was published, Teagen for 25 years and Tearra for 22 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Teagen Tearra
Total US births 1,581758
Most in one year 9943
Babies in 2025 18under 5
Estimated living today 1,600740
Median age today 1431
Peak year 20111989
Best rank 2,989th girls2,618th girls
Rank in 2025 8,860thunranked
First recorded 19851977
Girls / boys 850 / 731758 / 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 Tearras alive today are over 31; half the Teagens are over 14. That is 17 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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