Megan
Megan reached its high-water mark in 1990 at number 11, and has been recorded 441,169 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 887th. About 429,000 Megans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 34.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Megan boys named Megan
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 441,169
- Estimated living today
- 429,000
- Median age today
- 34
- Peak year
- 1990
- Best rank
- 11th
- Rank in 2025
- 887th
- First recorded
- 1922
- Girls / boys
- 440,065 / 1,104
How old the living Megans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 441,169 babies given the name since 1922, about 429,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 20,000 of them are children and 2,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1991 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Welsh
cognate with English Margaret, ultimately from an Indo-Iranian source.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Megans
- Megan Fox (born 1986)American actress and model
- Megan Rapinoe (born 1985)American soccer player
- Megan Thee Stallion (born 1995)American rapper, singer and songwriter
- Megan Mullally (born 1958)American actress
- Megan Boone (born 1983)American actress
- Megan Follows (born 1968)Canadian actress and director
- Megan McArthur (born 1971)NASA astronaut
- Megan Young (born 1990)Filipino actress
People named Megan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Megan is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Megan is most concentrated in Utah (1.9×), Alaska (1.9×), Delaware (1.6×), New Hampshire (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1990
The most popular girls’ names the year Megan peaked:
Megan elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Megan | 70,928 | 3rd |
| Scotland girls | Megan | 9,527 | 2nd |
| Ireland girls | Megan | 7,630 | 11th |
| New Zealand girls | Megan | 5,869 | 21st |
| Northern Ireland girls | Megan | 2,684 | 6th |
| France girls | Megan +1 spelling | 1,805 | 232nd |
| Italy girls | Megan | 1,705 | — |
| Belgium girls | Megan +1 spelling | 458 | 225th |
| Switzerland girls | Megan | 232 | 302nd |
| Poland girls | Megan | 189 birth registrations | 260th |
| France boys | Megan | 50 | 1,492nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Megan: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Megan | 117 | 0.009% | 319th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Megan | 67 | 0.015% | 190th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Megan | 48 | 0.074% | 76th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Megan is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.07% of children were given it – 46 of them.
Megan: rank by region
In 2017, Megan was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Megan | 845 | 5 |
In 2019, Megan was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Megan | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, Megan was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Megan | 326 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Megan by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 4 | 538th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Megan among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Megan | 2,844 | 3,673 |
| Finland girls | Megan | 51 | 64 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Megan lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 970 women called Megan were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tarragona | Megan | 41 | 0.094 | 868 |
| Balears, Illes | Megan | 46 | 0.073 | 970 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Megan | 69 | 0.067 | 1,077 |
| Ávila | Megan | 5 | 0.063 | 921 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Megan | 20 | 0.063 | 1,060 |
| Valencia/València | Megan | 89 | 0.063 | 931 |
Listed in 32 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 20 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Megan against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.