Given name & surname
Tighe
“a wise poet”
Tighe is a variant of Teague. One interpretation is “a wise poet.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Tighe is a variant of Teague. One interpretation is “a wise poet.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1949. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tighe through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 524
- 524 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1979
- 20 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,850 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −35%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,850 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 20 in 1979. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 532 as a first name in 2020; 4,779 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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