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Teague vs Teah

American parents have registered 1,737 Teagues since 1880, against 1,409 Teahs. Teague is still ahead, with 19 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Teague Teah

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 64 years in which either name was published, Teah for 32 years and Teague for 32 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Teague Teah
Total US births 1,7371,409
Most in one year 8863
Babies in 2025 19under 5
Estimated living today 1,7001,400
Median age today 1828
Peak year 20091998
Best rank 1,742nd boys2,244th girls
Rank in 2025 5,045thunranked
First recorded 19691955
Girls / boys 32 / 1,7051,409 / 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 Teahs alive today are over 28; half the Teagues are over 18. That is 10 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 Teague Teah
England and Wales 40202

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: Teague and Teah.