Tegan is a Welsh name, that means ‘darling’. It developed from the word ‘teg’ for ‘fair, pretty’ and is known outside of Wales since the 1980s.
Tegan is a unisex first name, but it's given significantly more often to girls than boys.
Few children have been named Tegan in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 9 out of 100,000 children are currently called Tegan. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Tegan at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Tegan is number *** on the list of most common first names.
Tegan is a Welsh name, that means ‘darling’. It developed from the word ‘teg’ for ‘fair, pretty’ and is known outside of Wales since the 1980s.
Tegan is also... a Welsh word meaning 'toy'.
In fact, the name Tegan did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Tegan seemed to be more popular than ever in 2011. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,199, 446 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Tegan, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Tegan was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Tegan a few times. Among all babies it ranked #2,411 - with a total of 181 newborns. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving children with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a quite popular first letter for given names. Because: 6.3% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for given names are A, J and K.
With five letters, the name Tegan is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 6.3% of all first names that begin with an S, this initial letter is much more common than all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Tegan and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Tegan, you can simply say:
Tiger
Elephant
Goat
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Tegan
Tegan
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
E
G
A
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
T
E
G
A
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Tegan sounds like this:
