Meagan
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Meagan is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Ireland it is the 88th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Recent variant spelling of Megan.
- AUAustralia1 in 609◐
- IEIreland1 in 621
- USUnited States1 in 812
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈414K ●
- #707 ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 553 ●
- 1 in 812 ◐
across 10 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
3.2M records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Megan in US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom and 20 more, Meghan in IN India, RU Russia, MA Morocco and Mégan in FR France.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Recent variant spelling of Megan. Variant: Meaghan. 169
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #156 | 409,486 | 2.8M rec. | 1 in 812 | 409K | Megan | 553 |
| AU Australia | #109 | 190,378 | 128K rec. | — | 78 | Megan | 279 |
| GB United Kingdom | #220 | 156,566 | 107K rec. | — | 8 | Megan | 253 |
| CA Canada | #126 | 98,013 | 57K rec. | — | 6 | Megan | 230 |
| IE Ireland | #88 | 15,021 | 4.2K rec. | — | 57 | Megan | 118 |
| ZA South Africa | #350 | 9,977 | 9.3K rec. | — | — | Megan | 143 |
| IT Italy | #761 | 7,113 | 7K rec. | — | 115 | Megan | 95 |
| NZ New Zealand | #101 | 6,745 | 4.2K rec. | — | 12 | Megan | 137 |
| DE Germany | — | 4,993 | 4.6K rec. | — | 1 | Megan | 120 |
| PH Philippines | — | 4,599 | 3.7K rec. | — | — | Megan | 85 |
| IN India | — | 2,787 | 2.3K rec. | — | 358 | Meghan | 82 |
| EG Egypt | — | 2,589 | 2.5K rec. | — | — | Megan | 21 |
Roughly 409K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 812). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English224K85%
- 13K5%
- Spanish7K3%
- German1.8K1%
- French1.6K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 223,538 | 85% |
| 13,456 | 5% | |
| Spanish | 7,008 | 3% |
| German | 1,780 | 1% |
| French | 1,601 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Meagan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A female given name from Welsh, a pseudo-Irish spelling of the Welsh Megan.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1954 | 6 |
| 1956 | 5 |
| 1958 | 6 |
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1960 | 9 |
| 1961 | 6 |
| 1962 | 11 |
| 1963 | 7 |
| 1964 | 16 |
| 1965 | 20 |
| 1966 | 20 |
| 1967 | 27 |
| 1968 | 39 |
| 1969 | 53 |
| 1970 | 64 |
| 1971 | 64 |
| 1972 | 69 |
| 1973 | 90 |
| 1974 | 164 |
| 1975 | 230 |
| 1976 | 283 |
| 1977 | 380 |
| 1978 | 386 |
| 1979 | 476 |
| 1980 | 732 |
| 1981 | 841 |
| 1982 | 837 |
| 1983 | 1,190 |
| 1984 | 1,677 |
| 1985 | 2,204 |
| 1986 | 2,244 |
| 1987 | 2,003 |
| 1988 | 2,056 |
| 1989 | 2,464 |
| 1990 | 2,531 |
| 1991 | 2,424 |
| 1992 | 1,958 |
| 1993 | 1,926 |
| 1994 | 1,788 |
| 1995 | 1,462 |
| 1996 | 1,503 |
| 1997 | 1,286 |
| 1998 | 1,179 |
| 1999 | 1,050 |
| 2000 | 858 |
| 2001 | 712 |
| 2002 | 638 |
| 2003 | 589 |
| 2004 | 473 |
| 2005 | 420 |
| 2006 | 371 |
| 2007 | 335 |
| 2008 | 253 |
| 2009 | 187 |
| 2010 | 153 |
| 2011 | 145 |
| 2012 | 119 |
| 2013 | 106 |
| 2014 | 89 |
| 2015 | 71 |
| 2016 | 57 |
| 2017 | 47 |
| 2018 | 40 |
| 2019 | 23 |
| 2020 | 18 |
| 2021 | 17 |
| 2022 | 12 |
| 2023 | 12 |
| 2024 | 11 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 69 years between 1954–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Megan Mullallyb. 1958USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Megan Doddsb. 1970USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Megan McArthurb. 1971USnot in their usual nameNASA astronaut
- Meagan Goodb. 1981USAmerican actress and producer
- Megan Booneb. 1983USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Megan Fergusonb. 1983USnot in their usual nameAmerican film actor
- Megan Rapinoeb. 1985USnot in their usual nameAmerican soccer player (born 1985)
- Megan Foxb. 1986USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and model (born 1986)
- Megan Parkb. 1986CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actress
- Megan Charpentierb. 2001CAnot in their usual nameAmerican-Canadian actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 37 sources across 24 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 261 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Meagan?
- We estimate roughly 414 thousand people bear Meagan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Meagan have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 409 thousand people bear Meagan in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled megan.
- How common is Meagan compared with other names?
- In the United States, Meagan is the 156th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
- Is Meagan a male or female name?
- Meagan is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Meagan mean?
- Recorded meaning: Recent variant spelling of Megan.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Meagan” — the 156th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.