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Girl · Irish Gaelic
Teagan
Say it: TEE-gun
Meaning
From the Irish surname Ó Tadhgáin, from Tadhgán, a diminutive of Tadhg, a name traditionally glossed 'poet'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Used for American girls from the 1990s.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 29,187 babies given this name since 1979
- At its height in 2016, about 1 in 865 girls
- 1,615 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Teegan, Tegan
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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