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Meghana

#16,453 in 2025Girls' name

Cloud

Meghana has been given to 971 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #16,453 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 65 recorded.

Babies named Meghana, 2025

1 in 663,000

Meghana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Meghana: meaning, origin, and history

Cloud

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Meghana means

Meghana means “cloud”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Meghana is used in Marathi, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 971 girls were recorded with the name Meghana between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 65 in 2001; its best national rank was #2,424 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #14,518 in 2020 to #16,453 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,865 in 2015 to #16,453 in 2025.

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.

How common is Meghana?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,453
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Meghana 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Meghana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Meghanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Meghana was born before 2004 — so the typical Meghana is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
54.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
971
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 54.0% of all recorded uses (524).

Is Meghana 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,935
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−8,588
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.33×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.7%
Peak was 2001 (65)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,424
2001

Spellings of Meghana

Meghana is not the most common spelling — Megan is, with 78.0% against Meghana's 0.17%.

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 Meghana is used

Across 1910–2025, Meghana was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 297,930 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Maryland1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6North Carolina1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 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. Meghana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Meghana around the world

Where Meghana 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
    2001–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • Canada
    2002–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2007–2009
    #818
    in 2009

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.

Meghana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,453
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,935
Best rank ever
#2,424
2001
Peak year
2001
65 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
971
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Meghana

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

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Sibling names for Meghana

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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