girls:
5.3k births since 1941
#2306 (60th percentile)
overall:
5.3k births since 1941
#3748 (52nd percentile)
The name Meg is the #3,748 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,320 recorded births since 1941. This represents the 51.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 51.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,306 (59.7% percentile) for all time with 5,320 births since 1941.
Meg first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1941 (first recorded for girls in 1941). Birth data for Meg is available in 81 out of the 82 years between 1941 and 2022. 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.
For girls, Meg reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 24.4% percentile (ranked #580) with 94 births per million. The name was most common in 1959, with 94 births per million (ranked 24.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Meg".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Meg is pronounced as mehg, which has 1 syllables.
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