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Meggan

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Welsh origin

Meggan has been given to 2,927 babies in the U.S. since 1957. 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 1985, with 185 recorded.

Babies named Meggan, 2013

1 in 405,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Meggan: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Welsh origin

Welsh

What Meggan means

Meggan is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Meggan is used in English. Its origins include Welsh.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,927 girls were recorded with the name Meggan between 1957 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 185 in 1985; its best national rank was #869 in 1985.

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 Meggan?

Meggan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 405,000
9 of 3,645,938 births
Among girls only
1 in 195,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
280,798 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Meggan 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 2013 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 280,798 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Meggan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Meggans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Meggan was born before 1984 — so the typical Meggan is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
44.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,927
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 44.8% of all recorded uses (1,312).

Is Meggan 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 1985 (185)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#869
1985

Spellings of Meggan

Meggan is not the most common spelling — Megan is, with 45.2% against Meggan's 0.30%.

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 Meggan is used

Across 1910–2025, Meggan was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 109,758 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in 33,333
  2. 2Illinois1 in 50,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 50,000
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Colorado1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Idaho1 in 100,000
  8. 8Indiana1 in 100,000

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

Meggan around the world

Where Meggan 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
    1996–2009
    #5,556
    in 2009
  • Scotland
    1988–1995
    #639
    in 1995
  • Ireland
    1992–1992
    #523
    in 1992
  • France
    1986–2002
    #3,823
    in 2002
  • Canada
    1992–2008
    #2,486
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1986–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Meggan 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
#869
1985
Peak year
1985
185 that year
First recorded
1957
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
2,927
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Meggan

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

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Names with a curve like Meggan

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

NatoshaShavonneTalishaNatashiaLateshaShanitaTenishaNakitaSharitaCristenShavonTaisha

Sibling names for Meggan

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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