NewName Shortlist 0 Girl · Irish Gaelic
Teagan Say it: TEE-gun
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Meaning From the Irish surname Ó Tadhgáin, from Tadhgán, a diminutive of Tadhg, a name traditionally glossed 'poet'.
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Used for American girls from the 1990s.
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In the United States 0 0.5 1 1.5 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020 Girls 2016 Boys 2009 per 1,000 babies of that sex 29,187 babies given this name since 1979 At its height in 2016, about 1 in 865 girls 1,615 babies in 2020 The family of the name Other spellings: Teegan, Tegan
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