Meghan

girls:

96.2k births since 1952

#382 (93rd percentile)

boys:

227 births since 1974

#4359 (5th percentile)

overall:

96.5k births since 1952

#702 (91st percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Meghan".

1952 2023 19522023

Key Statistics

Total Births
96,243
Peak Births
4,670
Peak Year
1985
First Recorded
1952
Peak Percentile
92.2%
Current Percentile
21.1%
Peak Rank
#63
Current Rank
#747
Female statistics
Total Births
227
Peak Births
22
Peak Year
1984
First Recorded
1974
Peak Percentile
2.5%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#652
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Meghan

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Meghan. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 80.0% confident that Meghan is pronounced as MEH-guhn. The next most likely pronunciation is MEHG-huhn, at 11.1% confidence.

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MEHG-huhn (2 syllables)
11.1% confidence
M EH1 G HH AH0 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Meghan. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Meghan, please vote using the thumbs up button.

MA-guhn (2 syllables)
8 names 6.9k births
M AE1 G AH0 N
MEH-gan (2 syllables)
3 names 4.2k births
M EH1 G AE0 N

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like M EH1 G AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.