Recorded 1957–2025 · United States
Tegan was most popular in 2011, when 446 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,199 that year. In 2025 it ranked #3,001, with 127 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 9,363 people named Tegan.
Tegan 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 57 of the 69 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 9,363 American births named Tegan 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 9,251 are estimated to be alive today.
127 American babies were named Tegan in 2025, ranking #3,001 that year.
Tegan is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 173 births a year, against 402 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -57% 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.
Across the whole record Tegan is a unisex name — 72.5% of the 9,363 Americans given it were girls and 27.5% were boys. It changed hands: since 2008 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 72% girls and 28% 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.
Roughly 9,251 Americans named Tegan are alive today — 99% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 16 years old, and half are between 10 and 23.
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.
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