Tegan

A girls’ name of Welsh origin, meaning fair; beautiful.

Babies a year
347
the US, 2017
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#2006
14 babies

How Tegan has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2017. Lower is more popular.
#825#939#1053201520162017#973

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YearUS rank
2015#951
2016#905
2017#973

Tegan by the numbers

In 2025, 14 babies in England and Wales were named Tegan. In the US, 347 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 350 babies in 2011, making it a 2010s name.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Tegan. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Teaganfair and beautiful; a form of Tegan1,870 in the US (2017)
  • Teiganfair, beautiful; a form of Teagan186 in the US (2017)
  • Teeganfair or beautiful; a variant of Teagan179 in the US (2017)
  • Taegana form of Teagan; beautiful and fair64 in the US (2017)
  • Teghanfair; beautiful; a form of Teagan15 in the US (2017)
  • Tieganfair; beautiful; a form of Teagan15 in the US (2017)

Other names that mean beauty

Like Tegan, each of these has beauty in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.

  • Laylanight, dark beauty6,283 in the US (2017)
  • Bellabeautiful; a diminutive of Isabella4,616 in the US (2017)
  • Finleyfair-haired warrior1,733 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Mackenzieson of the fair one; surname used as given name2,976 in the US (2017)
  • Jadejade stone; symbol of virtue and beauty2,765 in the US (2017)
  • Annabellegrace and beauty combined form2,601 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Tegan

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