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One of my close friends is named Tegan, pronounced Tee-gan. A lot of people say it Teg-an (Like Megan i guess?). Nice name, not my fav.
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Prefer this spelling over the other 2.
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Tegan Cunningham is a retired Australian basketball player who played for the Melbourne Boomers in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) among other teams and Australian rules football player currently playing for the Hawthorn Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition. Cunningham previously played for the Melbourne Football Club.
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Tegan Marie is an American country singer and songwriter. She first received attention for her covers of popular songs, including a rendition of Florida Georgia Line's "H.O.L.Y." that received 20 million views on social media. She was later signed to Warner Music Nashville at age 13, becoming the youngest female singer to sign to a major country label since Tanya Tucker in 1972.
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Tegan McCarthy is a Papua New Guinean swimmer. She competed in the 4 × 100 m, 4 × 200 m freestyle relays, and the 4 × 100 medley relay at the 2011 Pacific Games, capturing bronze in all three events, and in the 50 m, 100 m and 200 m breaststroke, 50 m (where she holds the national record with a time of 32.27 seconds) and 100 m backstroke (with a Papua New Guinea record of 1:12.61), 50 m butterfly (an event where she broke the national record ) and 100 m individual medley events at the 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m).
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This is also the Welsh word for "toy": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tegan#Welsh
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The only thing is that everyone spells it like Teagan and it can sometimes get really annoying but people can misspell any name so it's ok.
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My name is Tegan and I'm not sure I love it but I definitely don't hate it. My family call me Tegie, Teeg, or Beagly, and my friends just call me T.
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I prefer this spelling to Teagan.
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I think it’s a cute name for a girl if a bit 1990ish.
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I’m called Tegan (pronounced tee-gun) and I have only ever met two other Tegans- one Teigan and one Teagan. I’ve always liked my name and have always gotten lots of compliments for it.
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I prefer it for a girl, since it has strictly feminine roots and the word fair is usually used to describe females.
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The name Tegan was given to 305 girls born in the US in 2016.
More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Tegan are female.
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More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Tegan are female.
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The name Tegan was given to 112 boys born in the US in 2015.
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Canadian Duo "Tegan And Sara".
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My name is Tegan and I pronounce it like Megan. The way it was explained to me, is the Welsh origin pronounces it this way while the Irish origin is pronounced like "Teegan."
I really like my name, except for having to correct everyone's pronunciation all the time.
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I really like my name, except for having to correct everyone's pronunciation all the time.
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Modern Welsh for toy.
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What a cute, charming & pretty name! :)
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Tegan Napper, a weightlifter who took part in the Glasgow 2014: Commonwealth Games.
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I pronounce my name Tee-gun and am female. (I was also born on the same date as Tegan Quinn, which was sort of neat to come across.)
I've never personally met any other female Tegans, but 1 male Tegan and 1 male Teagan.
I always thought that my name sounded very masculine and hated it for a really long time, but I also get a lot of compliments on it.
If you give a girl this name, give her a reasonably pretty middle name that she can be called by if she hates it. My middle name is very pretty, but Alexandria is a bit too regal to have people call me by.
I'd say you should give a boy a middle name he can use instead too, because they might find it too similar to Megan and feel that it's too girly.
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I've never personally met any other female Tegans, but 1 male Tegan and 1 male Teagan.
I always thought that my name sounded very masculine and hated it for a really long time, but I also get a lot of compliments on it.
If you give a girl this name, give her a reasonably pretty middle name that she can be called by if she hates it. My middle name is very pretty, but Alexandria is a bit too regal to have people call me by.
I'd say you should give a boy a middle name he can use instead too, because they might find it too similar to Megan and feel that it's too girly.
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My name is Tegan pronounced (Tea-gon), not a big pronunciation on the 'o'. I believe it is a Cornish name as my family are Cornish and wanted my name to be Cornish too. Also the name Tegan is said to mean many things such as 'pretty little thing', 'beautiful' and 'doe'. I am female but I do believe the name is unisex, personally I don't know anyone with this name also other than the group Tegan and sara.
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Pronounced TEG-un in Cornish.
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I just love this name! It is gorgeous and unique... You can't go wrong with it!
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Good name! It is very strong, elegant and timeless.
It is pronounced TEE-gan.
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It is pronounced TEE-gan.
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My dad named me after the Doctor's companion Tegan Jovanka.
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Tegan is a strictly feminine name to me. Also, I've only ever heard it pronounced 'tee-gan'.
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Tegan Bennett Daylight (b 1969)is an Australian author from Sydney.
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Tegan is the heroine of the Australian animated short film "Tegan the Vegan" (2009), about a 12 year old girl who becomes a vegetarian after she finds out where meat comes from.
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Is it a girl's name only?! My boyfriend is named Tegan. And on a boy this name sounds good too.
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I love this name - so sweet and lovely. Nicknames: Teg, Anne, An, Annie.
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Tegen is a Cornish variation, meaning "pretty thing."
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A girl in the Sunday School class I teach bears this name. However, her family pronounces it like Taegan/Teagan. I'm not sure why.
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The Welsh pronunciation is 'TEG-an'.
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Pronounced TEE-gun.
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I really like the name Tegan. I pronounce it TAY-gun. I think most people pronounce it TEE-gun. No matter how you say it, it sounds good! A cute name for a girl or boy.
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I love this name! Most people find it too masculine, but I think it's completely feminine. The only thing I have trouble with is pronunciation. Is it TEG-an (rhymes with Megan) or TEE-gan (like Teagan)? Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong but I think a Welsh speaker would say TEG-an, but I'm not 100% on that.
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For some odd reason I love this name and it would go great for both boy or girl. It is a cute name.
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Since the 1880's Tegan for a girl or boy hasn't appeared on the top 1000 list.
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I have seen the Tegan spelling pronounced TAY-gan or Teh-gan (short "e" sound). Teagan uses the long "e" sound, it is Irish. I see Tegans and Teagans as being very sweet, artistic, and spirited.
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This was the name of a very popular Doctor Who companion. Her name was Tegan Jovanka, and the way she got called that was that the script person laid out two name options, Tegan and Jovanka, and the other script person thought that Jovanka was her last name and christened her. I know someone who was actually named after her.
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My name, but I pronounce it Tea-gun. Apparently it means "dark, beautiful" in Welsh and "good looking" or "doe" in Irish.
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Mine is pronounced Teh-gun, though I've heard it pronounced other ways. I think the Tee-gun pronunciation is Irish.
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I think it's Cornish.
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Famous bearer: Tegan Quin from the duo group Tegan & Sara.
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Tegan means beautiful. It is apparently also Irish.
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This is the Welsh word for "toy".
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Many people say it so diffrent! Like 'Teagan, Teegen, Tigan'
I guess it's just because I'm from Sweden, they don't know how to pronounce it...
Everyone asks 'how do you say your name?'...so annoying.
It's basically just my family and friends who pronounce it right...
I guess it's just an unusual name here in Sweden and that I'm English...