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Morgan vs Morgann

American parents have registered 269,269 Morgans since 1880, against 758 Morganns. Morgan is still ahead, with 1,509 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Morgan against Morgann, 1880 to 2025 0 4k 8k 12k 16k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Morgan Morgann

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Morgan has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1982, when Morgan had 2,347 and Morgann had 13.

Side by side

  Morgan Morgann
Total US births 269,269758
Most in one year 12,13542
Babies in 2025 1,5095
Estimated living today 258,000750
Median age today 2627
Peak year 19952001
Best rank 23rd girls3,256th girls
Rank in 2025 312th14,942nd
First recorded 18801979
Girls / boys 223,626 / 45,643758 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Morgan Morgann
France 33,6801,250
England and Wales 25,9417

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Morgan and Morgann.