At a Glance: Name: Teal – Meaning: named after the teal duck – Origin: English (Middle English 'tele', a duck) – Gender: Unisex – Pronunciation: TEEL
Teal is an English (Middle English 'tele', a duck) unisex name meaning “named after the teal duck”. It appears in 2 of our baby name lists.
Meaning & Origin of Teal
Meaning: Named after the teal duck.
Origin: English (Middle English 'tele', a duck).
A common claim: Teal means 'blue-green' (the color) Actually: The name comes from the teal duck; the blue-green color is a secondary sense named after the bird, not the name's original meaning.
Source: Wiktionary.
How to Pronounce Teal
Phonetic: TEEL IPA: /tiːl/
Popularity of Teal
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration birth-name data, 1957–2024.
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