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Maeghan

Girls' name

Variant of Megan

Maeghan has been given to 1,064 babies in the U.S. since 1976. 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 1990, with 59 recorded.

Babies named Maeghan, 2012

1 in 366,000

Maeghan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maeghan: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Megan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maeghan means

Maeghan is a variant of Megan.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Maeghan is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈmɛɡ.ən/ for Maeghan.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Maeghan → Megan → Megan → Margaret. The family’s proposed meaning is “pearl”, recorded in English with the source elements margarítēs.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Megan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,064 girls were recorded with the name Maeghan between 1976 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 59 in 1990; its best national rank was #2,186 in 1990.

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 Maeghan?

Maeghan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 366,000
10 of 3,657,590 births
Among girls only
1 in 176,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
253,526 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maeghan 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 2012 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 253,526 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maeghan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maeghans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maeghan was born before 1995 — so the typical Maeghan is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
41.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,064
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 41.2% of all recorded uses (438).

Is Maeghan 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1990 (59)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,186
1990

Spellings of Maeghan

Maeghan is not the most common spelling — Megan is, with 72.9% against Maeghan's 0.18%.

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 Maeghan is used

Across 1910–2025, Maeghan was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 376,219 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

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. Maeghan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maeghan around the world

Where Maeghan 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
    2002–2004
    #4,598
    in 2004
  • Canada
    1991–2003
    #2,346
    in 2003
  • South Australia
    1986–2005
    #517
    in 2005

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

Maeghan 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
#2,186
1990
Peak year
1990
59 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
1,064
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Maeghan

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

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Sibling names for Maeghan

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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