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Megyn

Girls' name

Possibly pearl, through Megan

Megyn has been given to 460 babies in the U.S. since 1984. 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 2009, with 52 recorded.

Babies named Megyn, 2020

1 in 557,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Megyn: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly pearl, through Megan

Welsh

What Megyn means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Megyn 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, 460 girls were recorded with the name Megyn between 1984 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 52 in 2009; its best national rank was #3,233 in 2009.

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 Megyn?

Megyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 269,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,120 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Megyn 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 2020 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 386,120 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Megyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Megyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Megyn was born before 2008 — so the typical Megyn is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
44.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
460
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 44.1% of all recorded uses (203).

Is Megyn 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
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 2009 (52)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,233
2009

Spellings of Megyn

Megyn is not the most common spelling — Megan is, with 64.9% against Megyn's 0.07%.

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 Megyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Megyn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,887,202 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Indiana1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Megyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Megyn around the world

Where Megyn 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
    2013–2013
    #5,742
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Megyn 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
#3,233
2009
Peak year
2009
52 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
460
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Megyn

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

MeghaMegumiMeghnaLogynMegenMeginMeggieMeghanaMegginMegonMegannMeghinMegeanMeganneMeghenMeggenMegaRaegynMeghamTeagynMegganMorgynMegahnReagyn

Sibling names for Megyn

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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