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Tagen

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Tagen is a name. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Tagen come from?

Uncertain; perhaps a variant of Tegan or Teagan

Is Tagen a girl's or a boy's name?

In recent years, Tagen has been given to girls and boys, mostly boys.

How popular is Tagen in the US?

No boys in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2007, with 19 boys. It first appears in the records in 1998.

Half of all the boys named Tagen in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2009, the years shaded on the chart below.

1998Busiest: 19 in 20072019
Tagen in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20195#12,138
20180–
20170–
20166#10,739
20159#8,035
20146#10,711
20130–
201210#7,553
20115#12,280
20100–
200915#5,796
20089#8,319
200719#4,806
200610#7,422
200510#7,089
200410#6,970
200314#5,265
200213#5,388
20017#8,332
20006#9,104
19996#8,697
19986#8,472

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Tagen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/tagen, updated 20 October 2026.