Tegan

plural Tegans

1. A female given name from Welsh.

   The lad felt most honoured when Tegan called him her best friend.

   2007, Christine Jones, Mariard, Volume 1: The Gifting, page 68

   3 more examples

   Janet Fielding's Tegan also says goodbye to Doctor Who in "Resurrection of the Daleks," and her farewell has an abrupt air to it.[…]Tegan simply has a temper tantrum and says she has seen too much violence. She then runs off into a warehouse and disappears.

   1999, John Kenneth Muir, A Critical History of Doctor Who on Television, page 339

   Canadian indie-rock duo Tegan and Sara Quin have spent a lifetime answering the question: "So which one of you is which?"

   2007 August, Barry Walters, “How To Tell Tegan From Sara”, in Spin, page 44

   Following a restless and difficult day, Tegan, who is 11 weeks old, falls asleep cuddled up with her mother Carys on the sofa.

   2011, Catherine Powell, Safeguarding And Child Protection For Nurses, Midwives And Health Visitors, page 126

2. A male given name from Irish. Alternative form of Teagan.

   'But,' Tegan prompted, pulling Elise toward him like he wanted something firm to hold onto. 'But it was empty.'

   2008, Lara Adrian, Midnight Awakening, published 2013, unnumbered page

3. A surname.

   Their next door neighbor told Ott she had seen Tegan the night before the report was made and he did not have any bruises on his head.

   2006, Report of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court and in the Court of Appeals of the State of Idaho, page 14