Megan

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Megan 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: Margaret form with -an diminutive; no dated cite given.

rarermore common
  • 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 ●

across 10 countries

#707 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
553 ●

3.2M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 812 ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

MeganLatin · English●2.8M records
מייגןHebrew · Hebrew●201 records
МеганCyrillic · Russian●175 records
메간Hangul · Korean●2 records
ΜεγκανGreek · Greek●0 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Meghan in IN India, RU Russia, MA Morocco, Mégan in FR France and Meagan in BR Brazil.

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●

Margaret form with -an diminutive; no dated cite given.

Sources 1

  • Welsh Surnames

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Megan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#156409,4862.8M rec.1 in 812409KMegan553
AU Australia#109190,378128K rec.—78Megan279
GB United Kingdom#220156,566107K rec.—8Megan253
CA Canada#12698,01357K rec.—6Megan230
IE Ireland#8815,0214.2K rec.—57Megan118
ZA South Africa#3509,9779.3K rec.——Megan143
IT Italy#7617,1137K rec.—115Megan95
NZ New Zealand#1016,7454.2K rec.—12Megan137
DE Germany—4,9934.6K rec.—1Megan120
PH Philippines—4,5993.7K rec.——Megan85
IN India—2,7872.3K rec.—358Meghan82
EG Egypt—2,5892.5K rec.——Megan21

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●

  • English2.8M85%
  • 109K3%
  • Spanish106K3%
  • French28K1%
  • German22K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English2,808,28385%
109,4193%
Spanish105,5583%
French27,9031%
German21,6011%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Megan is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name185K records spelled Megan18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Argentina, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Mégan, Megán, Mègan, Męgan, Mëgãn

  • a separate given name115K records spelled Megan3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India, Canada

    Also written Mēgan, Mégan

  • Indonesian given name7.4K records spelled Megan4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Indonesia, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Mégan, Mēgań

  • Turkish given name4.2K records spelled Megan8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Türkiye, Canada

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek

    Also written Meğan, Mégan, Męğąñ, Mègan, Megån

  • English given name3.7K records spelled Megan35 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Thai, Spanish

    Also written Meaghan, Meghan, เมแกน, Méaghan, Magán

59 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Megan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • A variant of Margaret. Melaghlin [Maeleachlainn] (m) ‘servant of St Secundinus’. Melaghlin is the true English form of Maeleachlainn, but Malachy was commonly used to translate it, and at present it seems to have 85 Melanie completely replaced it. Miles was occasionally used as a translation.

    as a nameIrish first names

  • 1. with the stress on the first syllable, this is an Anglicized form of Gaelic Meighan, which, according to MacLysaght, is usually a variant of Meehan or occasionally of Megahan. 2. with the stress on the second syllable, a variant of McGahan.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In English, A diminutive of the female given name Margaret, from Welsh.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Irish, Variant of Margaret.

    as a nameIrish first names

  • In English, a pearl

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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●

010K20K30K1940196019802000202020K · 1990

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Megan in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1922–2025
Yearrecords
19227
192313
19247
19265
19277
19305
19317
19337
19348
19357
19367
19396
19409
194212
194321
194416
194524
194622
194729
194828
194930
195061
195186
1952119
1953156
1954153
1955198
1956197
1957258
1958301
1959358
1960365
1961400
1962391
1963432
1964512
1965609
1966655
1967709
1968812
19691,031
19701,267
19711,500
19721,587
19732,021
19742,818
19754,191
19764,463
19775,320
19785,895
19798,293
19809,134
19818,964
19829,518
198314,124
198416,984
198520,013
198618,590
198717,823
198818,570
198919,780
199020,259
199119,278
199217,842
199316,384
199416,580
199515,530
199614,770
199714,244
199813,258
199912,230
200011,436
200110,300
20029,210
20037,800
20046,687
20055,856
20064,946
20074,124
20083,416
20093,058
20102,406
20111,915
20121,561
20131,246
20141,064
2015855
2016751
2017631
2018565
2019499
2020453
2021490
2022399
2023417
2024369
2025301

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 97 years between 1922–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19401960198020002020Megan Mullally, b. 1958Megan Dodds, b. 1970Megan McArthur, b. 1971Megan Boone, b. 1983Megan Ferguson, b. 1983Megan Rapinoe, b. 1985Megan Fox, b. 1986Megan Park, b. 1986Chelsea Green, b. 1991Megan Charpentier, b. 2001

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 91 sources across 50 countries.

Official registers attesting Megan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020409K#114
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20191.6K#3,224
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20241.5K#739
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—970#2,898
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—748#1,672
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000557#37,591
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—519#818
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010499#43,285
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022477—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—466#13,843
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020462#49,237
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020455#114

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 · 1,034 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Megan?
We estimate roughly 414 thousand people bear Megan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Megan have the most bearers?
We estimate about 409 thousand people bear Megan in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled megan.
How common is Megan compared with other names?
In the United States, Megan is the 156th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Megan a male or female name?
Megan 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 Megan mean?
Recorded meaning: Margaret form with -an diminutive; no dated cite given.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Megan” — the 156th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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