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Tiegan

Gender
Girl
Say it
TEE-gan
Origin
Irish
US rank, 2025
#9,454 for girls

Tiegan is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “little poet”. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).

What does Tiegan mean?

Irish: variant of Teagan, from Irish O Tadhgain

“little poet”

A spelling of Teagan, from an Irish surname built on Tadhg, meaning poet or philosopher.

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

Tiegan is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Tiegan in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1998, with 259 girls.

Half of all the girls named Tiegan in the UK since 1996 were born between 1999 and 2005, the years shaded on the chart below.

1997Busiest: 259 in 19982022
Tiegan in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20224#4,870
20212#7,411
20204#4,744
20195#4,214
20186#3,702
20175#4,250
20168#3,105
201513#2,186
201422#1,494
201317#1,798
201218#1,756
201120#1,570
201032#1,112
200960#674
200871#586
200779#529
2006114#398
2005134#335
2004143#319
2003148#301
2002176#259
2001213#213
2000187#249
1999174#261
1998259#188
199797#389

How popular is Tiegan in the US?

Rank in 2025
#9,454among girls
Babies in 2025
10about 1 in 160,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Tiegan, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,321st. Its busiest year was 2012, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 1996.

Half of all the girls named Tiegan in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 994 girls in the US were given Tiegan or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #338, up from #9,454 for this spelling alone.

1996Busiest: 18 in 20122025
Tiegan in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202510#9,454
20248#11,117
202310#9,611
202213#8,027
202111#8,973
202018#6,321
201911#9,106
201811#9,146
201715#7,438
201612#8,872
201512#8,926
201415#7,633
201310#10,230
201218#6,868
201117#7,115
201012#9,227
200913#8,884
200811#10,080
200711#10,125
200613#8,711
200514#7,886
20047#12,754
20039#10,420
20028#11,102
20015#15,345
200011#8,527
19995#14,403
19980–
19970–
19966#11,801

Names like Tiegan

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Tiegan

Names related to Tiegan

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Tiegan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/tiegan, updated 20 October 2026.