Teagan

Derived from the Irish surname Ó Tadhgáin, a diminutive form rooted in the personal name Tadhg, meaning poet. It also shares phonetic territory with the Welsh name Tegan. American parents did not put it in the ledger until 1979, after which it climbed quietly as part of the turn-of-the-century wave of Irish-adjacent surnames.

The name belongs squarely to the twenty-first-century school roster. An estimated average age of thirteen places most bearers in middle school or early high school, likely holding a lacrosse stick or a phone running group chats. It carries a swift, energetic cadence that reads modern and unbothered by ceremony. It has never experienced a world without ambient Wi-Fi.