Teal
Recorded 1957–2025 · United States
Teal was most popular in 1994, when 71 American babies were given the name — ranking #3,259 that year. In 2025 it ranked #8,652, with 26 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,906 people named Teal.
Teal over time
How old is the name Teal?
Teal first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1957, which makes it about 68 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 69 of the 69 years since.
How many people are named Teal?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,906 American births named Teal between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,837 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Teal in 2025?
26 American babies were named Teal in 2025, ranking #8,652 that year.
Is Teal getting more or less popular?
Teal is rising. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 31 births a year, against 22 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of +38% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Teal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Teal is mostly a girl’s name — 84.2% of the 1,906 Americans given it were girls and 15.8% were boys. It changed hands: since 2025 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 66% girls and 34% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Teal?
Roughly 1,837 Americans named Teal are alive today — 96% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 35 years old, and half are between 20 and 43.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Teal is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org