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[Opinions] Teagan for a girl
I notice that Teagan for a girl has gone up in popularity a lot since 1999. What do you think of it for a girl?
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I've seen it once on a girl, and never on anyone else.I don't like lnfns in general, and I don't like Romantic Oireland names unless there's a very good reason for them. So my reasons for disliking it are probably other people's reasons for liking it. C'est la vie.
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I really like it. I've only know female Tegan's anyway and think it's weird for a boy.
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I much prefer it on boys. Especially since it's a diminutive of Tadhg not a feminine form.

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I know a 5 year old boy named Teagan and he's the only Teagan I've met. Teagan would be a nice girls name too.

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Always been a favourite Irish name for me
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I've only heard it on a girl. I don't like it, but I don't hate it. It fits in with a lot of the uncommon surnames that are on girls these days, but I think it works pretty well.
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I have only ever heard this name used for girls, never for boys. I don't mind the name.
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I know a girl named Teagen. I like it. It works better on a girl than on a boy imo.
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I know a teen-age girl named Teagan.
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I think of it as a girl name that also could be used for boys.
It's TEE-gan ... I'm annoyed by Tay-gan, which I think is very awful.
I like the spelling Tegan more, it makes me think less of tea and seems less likely to be prn Tay.
The vibe, for me, is 1970s - the first wave of trendy Irish names, a hippie vibe. It seems to "go with" names like Deirdre and Shauna and Darcy. Or maybe 90s. I like it okay, but the sounds aren't my favorite.

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I've only heard it on girls. But I think it'd be cute on a boy. My main association with it is Tegan from classic Doctor Who, from the early 1990's.
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I don't like it at all on a girl. Love it on a boy, love Teague too, but I just can't like it as a female name.
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I've ONLY heard it on girls.I know technically it started as a male name, but I never met a male Teagan. I have met a couple of female Teagans since roughly 1999, though. I like it, I think it's a fine name. Sounds feminine to me.
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It's okay. I remember really really liking it when I was about twelve, and I still think it has kind of a cool-girl vibe to it, which is probably what appealed to me about it in the first place. It's much better than Reagan, at least.
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Well, one big strike against it is the uncertainty of its pronunciation. Tee-Gan? Tay-Gan? Teggan?
Another strike is it's similarity to Megan and Reagan, both names I really don't like at all.
There's nothing special or interesting about it; you can say it's a surname, but I don't think I've ever even heard of anybody with Teagan as their last name. It's just blah, wannabe trendy.
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