Humanverse

Teague vs Teala

American parents have registered 1,737 Teagues since 1880, against 523 Tealas. Teague is still ahead, with 19 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Teague 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 65 years in which either name was published, Teague for 49 years and Teala for 16 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Teague Teala
Total US births 1,737523
Most in one year 8841
Babies in 2025 19under 5
Estimated living today 1,700500
Median age today 1837
Peak year 20091985
Best rank 1,742nd boys2,398th girls
Rank in 2025 5,045thunranked
First recorded 19691946
Girls / boys 32 / 1,705523 / 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 Teagues are over 18. That is 19 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 Teague Teala
England and Wales 403

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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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