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)
The name Meghan is the #702 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 96,470 recorded births since 1952. This represents the 90.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #382 (93.3% percentile) for all time with 96,243 births since 1952. For boys, it ranks #4,359 (4.9% percentile) for all time with 227 births since 1974.
Meghan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1952 (1952 for girls and 1974 for boys). Birth data for Meghan is available in 71 out of the 72 years between 1952 and 2023 (71 years for girls and 20 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 Meghan has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Meghan reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 92.2% percentile (ranked #63) with 2,529 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 2,529 births per million (ranked 92.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Meghan ranks #747 for girls (21.1% percentile) with 117 births per million, which is 4.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Meghan reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 2.5% percentile (ranked #671) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Meghan".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Meghan", 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 Meghan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.0% confident that Meghan is pronounced as MEH-guhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MEHG-huhn, at 11.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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