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Teigen vs Teisha

American parents have registered 1,240 Teishas since 1880, against 843 Teigens. But in 2025 it was Teigen that was commoner, 13 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Teigen against Teisha, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Teigen Teisha

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 62 years in which either name was published, Teisha for 37 years and Teigen for 25 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Teigen Teisha
Total US births 8431,240
Most in one year 10957
Babies in 2025 13under 5
Estimated living today 8401,200
Median age today 843
Peak year 20161983
Best rank 2,479th girls1,839th girls
Rank in 2025 7,885thunranked
First recorded 19991964
Girls / boys 442 / 4011,240 / 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 Teishas alive today are over 43; half the Teigens are over 8. That is 35 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 Teigen Teisha
England and Wales 1532

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: Teigen and Teisha.