Meghan

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Megan in US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom and 20 more, 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●

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Meghan is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name28K records spelled Meghan2 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Méghan

• Spanish given name25K records spelled Meghan9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Brazil, Canada

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

  Also written Męģhāņ, Méghãn, Méghan

• French given name8.6K records spelled Meghan5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Spain

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Méghan, Méghàn, Mèghan

52 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●

Meghan 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.

• Recent variant spelling of Megan.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

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●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 86 years between 1911–2014. 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
• Meghan Markleb. 1981USmember of the British royal family and Duchess of Sussex since 2018
• Meghan Oryb. 1982CACanadian actress
• Megan Booneb. 1983USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
• 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
• Meghan Trainorb. 1993USAmerican singer-songwriter (born 1993)
• 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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 565 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Meghan?

We estimate roughly 414 thousand people bear Meghan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Meghan have the most bearers?

We estimate about 409 thousand people bear Meghan in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled megan.

How common is Meghan compared with other names?

In the United States, Meghan is the 156th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

Is Meghan a male or female name?

Meghan 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 Meghan mean?

Recorded meaning: A female given name from Welsh, a pseudo-Irish spelling of the Welsh Megan.