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Meghna

#14,337 in 2025Girls' name

Cloud

Meghna has been given to 685 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #14,337 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 42 recorded.

Babies named Meghna, 2025

1 in 553,000

Meghna over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Meghna: meaning, origin, and history

Cloud

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Meghna means

Meghna means “cloud”, associated with megh.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

A transliteration of Bengali মেঘনা (meghona), from মেঘ (megh, “cloud”), from Sanskrit मेघ (megha).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Meghna (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Meghna is used in English.

Meghna comes through Bengali মেঘনা and Sanskrit मेघ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include ম.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Meghna is pronounced /meɡʱ(ə)nɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 685 girls were recorded with the name Meghna between 1986 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 42 in 2002; its best national rank was #3,312 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,259 in 2020 to #14,337 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,603 in 2015 to #14,337 in 2025.

How common is Meghna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,337
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Meghna 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Meghna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Meghnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Meghna was born before 2005 — so the typical Meghna is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
46.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
685
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 46.9% of all recorded uses (321).

Is Meghna 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
−6,078
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−8,734
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.25×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.3%
Peak was 2002 (42)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
56.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,312
2002

Spellings of Meghna

Meghna is not the most common spelling — Megan is, with 57.6% against Meghna's 0.09%.

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 Meghna is used

Across 1910–2025, Meghna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 247,103 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Massachusetts1 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. Meghna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Meghna around the world

Where Meghna 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
    1996–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    2019–2025
    #5,316
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2009
    #3,263
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Meghna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,337
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,078
Best rank ever
#3,312
2002
Peak year
2002
42 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
685
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Meghna

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

MegumiMeghanaAashnaMeghaMegannMeggieAlahnaMegginMegenSokhnaYashnaAshnaLeahnaLahnaLiahnaMegynJahnaMeghinDaphnaMegeanMegganMeganneTiahnaMegin

Sibling names for Meghna

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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