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Teairra vs Teal

American parents have registered 1,906 Teals since 1880, against 745 Teairras. Teal is still ahead, with 26 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Teairra Teal

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 69 years in which either name was published, Teal for 60 years and Teairra for 9 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Teairra Teal
Total US births 7451,906
Most in one year 9971
Babies in 2025 under 526
Estimated living today 7301,800
Median age today 2634
Peak year 20051994
Best rank 1,933rd girls2,079th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked7,885th
First recorded 19811957
Girls / boys 745 / 01,604 / 302

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 Teals alive today are over 34; half the Teairras are over 26. That is 8 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: Teairra and Teal.