Entry № 10424 · Welsh origin

Tegan Tegan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TEH-gan /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Welsh
Meaning
"Fair, beautiful"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Welsh)

A name that means "fair, beautiful".

Tegan is the Welsh word for "fair" or "beautiful" — from teg (fair). Used as a feminine name in Wales.

Tegan and Sara (Tegan Quin, born 1980) is the Canadian indie duo.

Fair. The Welsh beauty.

The name in its native script.

Tegan
Transliteration
Tegan
Pronunciation
/ ˈtɛɡ.ən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tegan stands.

Tegan does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Tegans before her.

Real people
Tegan Quin
Canadian musician (Tegan and Sara).
born 1980
In fiction
Tegan Jovanka
Companion in Doctor Who.
BBC, 1981

Names connected to Tegan.

The number behind Tegan.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tegan reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.