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Maegan

Girls' name

Possibly pearl, through Megan

Maegan has been given to 9,171 babies in the U.S. since 1970. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1991, with 431 recorded.

Babies named Maegan, 2023

1 in 474,000

Maegan over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maegan: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly pearl, through Megan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maegan means

Maegan belongs to the name family reached through Maegan → Megan → Megan → Margaret. Its meaning is “pearl”.

Origin, language, and formation

Maegan is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Megan and Margaret.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,171 girls were recorded with the name Maegan between 1970 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 431 in 1991; its best national rank was #505 in 1987.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Maegan?

Maegan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 229,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
328,234 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maegan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,234 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maegan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maegans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maegan was born before 1993 — so the typical Maegan is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
38.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
9,171
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 38.6% of all recorded uses (3,539).

Is Maegan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1991 (431)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#505
1987

Spellings of Maegan

Maegan is not the most common spelling — Megan is, with 42.4% against Maegan's 0.88%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Maegan is used

Across 1910–2025, Maegan was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 21,610 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 9,091
  2. 2Alabama1 in 10,000
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 10,000
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 11,111
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 11,111
  6. 6Florida1 in 12,500
  7. 7Mississippi1 in 12,500
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 14,286

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Maegan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maegan around the world

Where Maegan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2018
    #5,666
    in 2018
  • Scotland
    1989–1995
    #493
    in 1995
  • Canada
    1991–2016
    #3,204
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    1985–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Maegan

People whose public names include Maegan, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Maegan in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Maegan. Linked forms have their own page here.

MeganMeghan

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Maegan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#505
1987
Peak year
1991
431 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
9,171
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Maegan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MaelynMaeleeMaelynnMaeveKeeganRaeganTeganTeaganReganMaelieMaevaTeeganMaelleKeaganMaesynMaebryMaevynTeiganMaevenMaevisMaelaniReaganLoganTaegan

Names with a curve like Maegan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Maegan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

BreanneKrystaAlyshaKristianShainaSadeKacieAshlieJanayMarandaKassieJessika

Sibling names for Maegan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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