girls:
439.4k births since 1922
#80 (99th percentile)
boys:
1.1k births since 1968
#3497 (24th percentile)
overall:
440.5k births since 1922
#157 (98th percentile)
The name Megan is the #157 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 440,490 recorded births since 1922. This represents the 98.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #80 (98.6% percentile) for all time with 439,386 births since 1922. For boys, it ranks #3,497 (23.7% percentile) for all time with 1,104 births since 1968.
Megan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1922 (1922 for girls and 1968 for boys). Birth data for Megan is available in 95 out of the 102 years between 1922 and 2023 (95 years for girls and 40 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 Megan has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Megan reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 99.0% percentile (ranked #10) with 8,900 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 10,840 births per million (ranked 98.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1989, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Megan ranks #566 for girls (40.3% percentile) with 237 births per million, which is 2.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Megan reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 10.8% percentile (ranked #620) with 42 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 42 births per million (ranked 10.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Megan".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Megan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 77.8% confident that Megan is pronounced as MEH-guhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAY-guhn, at 13.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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