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Teegan vs Teena

American parents have registered 5,746 Teenas since 1880, against 3,592 Teegans. But in 2025 it was Teegan that was commoner, 67 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Teegan against Teena, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Teegan Teena

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 89 years in which either name was published, Teena for 60 years and Teegan for 29 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Teegan Teena
Total US births 3,5925,746
Most in one year 225322
Babies in 2025 67under 5
Estimated living today 3,6005,000
Median age today 1261
Peak year 20161956
Best rank 1,541st girls522nd girls
Rank in 2025 3,975thunranked
First recorded 19851928
Girls / boys 2,000 / 1,5925,746 / 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 Teenas alive today are over 61; half the Teegans are over 12. That is 49 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: Teegan and Teena.