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Teague vs Teara

American parents have registered 1,737 Teagues since 1880, against 1,260 Tearas. Teague is still ahead, with 19 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Teague 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 58 years in which either name was published, Teague for 34 years and Teara for 24 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Teague Teara
Total US births 1,7371,260
Most in one year 8873
Babies in 2025 19under 5
Estimated living today 1,7001,200
Median age today 1833
Peak year 20091990
Best rank 1,742nd boys1,905th girls
Rank in 2025 5,045thunranked
First recorded 19691968
Girls / boys 32 / 1,7051,260 / 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 Teagues are over 18. That is 15 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: Teague and Teara.