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Meghann

Girls' name

Possibly pearl, through Megan

Meghann has been given to 3,788 babies in the U.S. since 1977. 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 1979, with 374 recorded.

Babies named Meghann, 2012

1 in 523,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Meghann: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly pearl, through Megan

Welsh

What Meghann means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Meghann is used in English. Its origins include Welsh.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Megan and Margaret.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,788 girls were recorded with the name Meghann between 1977 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 374 in 1979; its best national rank was #517 in 1979.

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 Meghann?

Meghann 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 523,000
7 of 3,657,590 births
Among girls only
1 in 252,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
362,179 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Meghann 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 362,179 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Meghann. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Meghanns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Meghann was born before 1985 — so the typical Meghann is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
54.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
34.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,788
People you could plausibly meet
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1980s — 54.4% of all recorded uses (2,059).

Is Meghann 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1979 (374)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#517
1979

Spellings of Meghann

Meghann is not the most common spelling — Megan is, with 77.2% against Meghann's 0.66%.

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 Meghann is used

Across 1910–2025, Meghann was most concentrated in Colorado — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 60,645 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Colorado1 in 33,333
  2. 2Michigan1 in 33,333
  3. 3Washington1 in 33,333
  4. 4California1 in 50,000
  5. 5Connecticut1 in 50,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 50,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 50,000
  8. 8Indiana1 in 50,000

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

Meghann around the world

Where Meghann 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
    1996–2007
    #5,201
    in 2007
  • Scotland
    1980–1994
    #629
    in 1994
  • Ireland
    1987–1997
    #576
    in 1997
  • France
    1985–2002
    #5,458
    in 2002
  • Canada
    1991–2002
    #2,580
    in 2002
  • South Australia
    1981–2004
    #700
    in 2004

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.

Notable people named Meghann

People whose public names include Meghann, 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.

Meghann in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Meghann. 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.

Meghann 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
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Best rank ever
#517
1979
Peak year
1979
374 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
3,788
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Meghann

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

MegannLoriannMeghanaLilyannRuthannMariannJuliannRaeannCheyannLeighannJulieannSusannMegganLouannCarolannLillyannBreannMeghnaShyannMegumiMeghaRoseannBethannRayann

Names with a curve like Meghann

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

JustinBrandonShavonJonathanJoshuaLatoriaShamikaTenishaTarahCasieNicholasShavonne

Sibling names for Meghann

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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