girls:
41.5k births since 1954
#661 (88th percentile)
boys:
72 births since 1984
#4514 (2nd percentile)
overall:
41.6k births since 1954
#1211 (84th percentile)
The name Meagan is the #1,211 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 41,607 recorded births since 1954. This represents the 84.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #661 (88.4% percentile) for all time with 41,535 births since 1954. For boys, it ranks #4,514 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 72 births since 1984.
Meagan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1954 (1954 for girls and 1984 for boys). Birth data for Meagan is available in 68 out of the 70 years between 1954 and 2023 (68 years for girls and 8 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Meagan has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Meagan reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 85.7% percentile (ranked #119) with 1,238 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 1,238 births per million (ranked 85.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1990, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Meagan ranks #940 for girls (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 0.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Meagan reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #749) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 6 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Meagan".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Meagan", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 49 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Megan" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Megan..
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Meagan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.8% confident that Meagan is pronounced as MEE-guhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAY-guhn, at 34.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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