Meaning not yet researched.
Meg: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #715 in 1959.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US girls were given it in 2025. It peaked at #715 in 1959. No US babies were recorded with the name Meg in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US girls in 2025; it peaked at #715 in 1959.
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Meg: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 girls in 2025. Peak: #715 in 1959 · most girls in one year: 196 (1959).
Fewer than five US girls were named Meg in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #715, reached in 1959. That year also had the most girls given the name: 196. For comparison, it was #6,386 in 2015 and #1,894 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Meg in 81 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1941 with 5 babies. In all, 5,321 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,343 babies named Meg.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 86 US girls were named Meg; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 19.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Meg in the open dataset we use.
Meg is listed as a nickname for Maegen, Margaret, Margaretta, Margarita, Megan, Meghan.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | #14,720 | — | — |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,524 | — | — |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,339 | — | — |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,229 | — | — |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,701 | — | — |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,627 | — | — |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,592 | — | — |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,386 | — | — |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,354 | — | — |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,603 | — | — |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,200 | — | — |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,775 | — | — |
| 2010 | 52 | #3,189 | — | — |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,338 | — | — |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,200 | — | — |
| 2007 | 64 | #2,845 | — | — |
| 2006 | 65 | #2,748 | — | — |
| 2005 | 100 | #1,931 | — | — |
| 2004 | 88 | #2,083 | — | — |
| 2003 | 129 | #1,517 | — | — |
| 2002 | 109 | #1,691 | — | — |
| 2001 | 111 | #1,645 | — | — |
| 2000 | 109 | #1,627 | — | — |
| 1999 | 99 | #1,675 | — | — |
| 1998 | 92 | #1,729 | — | — |
| 1997 | 90 | #1,728 | — | — |
| 1996 | 102 | #1,561 | — | — |
| 1995 | 107 | #1,489 | — | — |
| 1994 | 82 | #1,779 | — | — |
| 1993 | 61 | #2,188 | — | — |
| 1992 | 79 | #1,823 | — | — |
| 1991 | 55 | #2,339 | — | — |
| 1990 | 79 | #1,821 | — | — |
| 1989 | 51 | #2,327 | — | — |
| 1988 | 52 | #2,204 | — | — |
| 1987 | 32 | #3,007 | — | — |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,883 | — | — |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,633 | — | — |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,764 | — | — |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,707 | — | — |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,742 | — | — |
| 1981 | 49 | #2,104 | — | — |
| 1980 | 52 | #2,035 | — | — |
| 1979 | 69 | #1,637 | — | — |
| 1978 | 36 | #2,455 | — | — |
| 1977 | 41 | #2,240 | — | — |
| 1976 | 44 | #2,018 | — | — |
| 1975 | 63 | #1,582 | — | — |
| 1974 | 85 | #1,274 | — | — |
| 1973 | 61 | #1,535 | — | — |
| 1972 | 92 | #1,177 | — | — |
| 1971 | 80 | #1,342 | — | — |
| 1970 | 87 | #1,268 | — | — |
| 1969 | 96 | #1,137 | — | — |
| 1968 | 83 | #1,193 | — | — |
| 1967 | 81 | #1,186 | — | — |
| 1966 | 106 | #995 | — | — |
| 1965 | 120 | #930 | — | — |
| 1964 | 161 | #827 | — | — |
| 1963 | 179 | #774 | — | — |
| 1962 | 184 | #766 | — | — |
| 1961 | 154 | #861 | — | — |
| 1960 | 179 | #764 | — | — |
| 1959 | 196 | #715 | — | — |
| 1958 | 125 | #923 | — | — |
| 1957 | 129 | #900 | — | — |
| 1956 | 110 | #964 | — | — |
| 1955 | 75 | #1,154 | — | — |
| 1954 | 56 | #1,338 | — | — |
| 1953 | 53 | #1,341 | — | — |
| 1952 | 47 | #1,426 | — | — |
| 1951 | 40 | #1,496 | — | — |
| 1950 | 26 | #1,894 | — | — |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,191 | — | — |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,568 | — | — |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,726 | — | — |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,878 | — | — |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,696 | — | — |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,892 | — | — |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,350 | — | — |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,845 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).