Meaning not yet researched.
Megan: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 301 in 2025. Its best rank was #10 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #10 in 1994; #889 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Megan in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#889 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #10.
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Megan: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 301 girls in 2025. Peak: #10 in 1994 · most girls in one year: 20,259 (1990).
In 2025, 301 US girls were named Megan, making it the 889th most common girls’ name of the year, down 125 places from #764 in 2024. That is 68 fewer than the 369 girls named Megan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #10, reached in 1994. The most girls given the name in a single year was 20,259, in 1990. For comparison, it was #385 in 2015 and #1,190 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Megan in 97 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1922 with 7 babies. In all, 441,169 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 160,642 babies named Megan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,875 US girls were named Megan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 751. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,340 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Megan ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #413 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Meghan (96,727 babies since 1880), Maegan (9,171 babies since 1880), Meghann (3,788 babies since 1880) and Meagan (41,619 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Meegan, Megann and Megen are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Meg.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, English and Welsh. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Meegan (979), Megann (797), Megen (682), Meighan (564), Mehgan (543), Megyn (460), Meggin (345), Meganne (294), Megin (293), Meagon (240), Megean (174), Megon (161), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Megan is listed as a nickname for Margarita.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 35 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 46 | #413 | #376 |
| Utah | 8 | #523 | #306 |
| New Jersey | 12 | #649 | #321 |
| Texas | 42 | #721 | #389 |
| Illinois | 12 | #778 | #419 |
| Indiana | 8 | #781 | #333 |
| Missouri | 7 | #784 | #548 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #829 | #552 |
| California | 33 | #886 | #358 |
| Georgia | 11 | #895 | #361 |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #909 | #348 |
| New York | 17 | #934 | #270 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #957 | #368 |
| Ohio | 9 | #1,008 | #533 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,137 | #296 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,173 | #380 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 301 | #889 | — | — |
| 2024 | 369 | #764 | — | — |
| 2023 | 417 | #694 | — | — |
| 2022 | 399 | #731 | — | — |
| 2021 | 490 | #609 | — | — |
| 2020 | 453 | #640 | — | — |
| 2019 | 499 | #609 | — | — |
| 2018 | 565 | #550 | — | — |
| 2017 | 631 | #496 | — | — |
| 2016 | 751 | #432 | — | — |
| 2015 | 855 | #385 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,064 | #306 | 6 | #11,656 |
| 2013 | 1,246 | #255 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,561 | #199 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,915 | #164 | — | — |
| 2010 | 2,406 | #131 | — | — |
| 2009 | 3,058 | #105 | 5 | #13,803 |
| 2008 | 3,416 | #100 | — | — |
| 2007 | 4,124 | #78 | 9 | #8,674 |
| 2006 | 4,946 | #60 | 8 | #9,282 |
| 2005 | 5,856 | #41 | 6 | #11,015 |
| 2004 | 6,687 | #36 | 35 | #2,938 |
| 2003 | 7,800 | #30 | 10 | #7,067 |
| 2002 | 9,210 | #22 | 16 | #4,839 |
| 2001 | 10,300 | #20 | 17 | #4,618 |
| 2000 | 11,436 | #18 | 14 | #5,225 |
| 1999 | 12,230 | #15 | 11 | #5,915 |
| 1998 | 13,258 | #13 | 21 | #3,566 |
| 1997 | 14,244 | #11 | 18 | #3,832 |
| 1996 | 14,770 | #12 | 20 | #3,501 |
| 1995 | 15,530 | #13 | 28 | #2,660 |
| 1994 | 16,580 | #10 | 31 | #2,478 |
| 1993 | 16,384 | #11 | 30 | #2,491 |
| 1992 | 17,842 | #10 | 33 | #2,283 |
| 1991 | 19,278 | #11 | 31 | #2,330 |
| 1990 | 20,259 | #11 | 44 | #1,799 |
| 1989 | 19,780 | #11 | 82 | #1,179 |
| 1988 | 18,570 | #12 | 61 | #1,326 |
| 1987 | 17,823 | #12 | 61 | #1,256 |
| 1986 | 18,590 | #11 | 61 | #1,237 |
| 1985 | 20,013 | #10 | 80 | #1,030 |
| 1984 | 16,984 | #11 | 50 | #1,341 |
| 1983 | 14,124 | #21 | 50 | #1,322 |
| 1982 | 9,518 | #34 | 50 | #1,334 |
| 1981 | 8,964 | #33 | 40 | #1,536 |
| 1980 | 9,134 | #30 | 35 | #1,683 |
| 1979 | 8,293 | #31 | 27 | #1,980 |
| 1978 | 5,895 | #41 | 24 | #2,050 |
| 1977 | 5,320 | #54 | 20 | #2,327 |
| 1976 | 4,463 | #62 | 20 | #2,303 |
| 1975 | 4,191 | #69 | 11 | #3,367 |
| 1974 | 2,818 | #105 | 12 | #3,072 |
| 1973 | 2,021 | #141 | 9 | #3,609 |
| 1972 | 1,587 | #180 | 7 | #4,282 |
| 1971 | 1,500 | #199 | 6 | #4,736 |
| 1970 | 1,267 | #246 | — | — |
| 1969 | 1,031 | #276 | — | — |
| 1968 | 812 | #309 | 5 | #4,529 |
| 1967 | 709 | #328 | — | — |
| 1966 | 655 | #354 | — | — |
| 1965 | 609 | #370 | — | — |
| 1964 | 512 | #433 | — | — |
| 1963 | 432 | #469 | — | — |
| 1962 | 391 | #491 | — | — |
| 1961 | 400 | #486 | — | — |
| 1960 | 365 | #506 | — | — |
| 1959 | 358 | #515 | — | — |
| 1958 | 301 | #565 | — | — |
| 1957 | 258 | #609 | — | — |
| 1956 | 197 | #684 | — | — |
| 1955 | 198 | #665 | — | — |
| 1954 | 153 | #752 | — | — |
| 1953 | 156 | #729 | — | — |
| 1952 | 119 | #844 | — | — |
| 1951 | 86 | #1,007 | — | — |
| 1950 | 61 | #1,190 | — | — |
| 1949 | 30 | #1,759 | — | — |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,806 | — | — |
| 1947 | 29 | #1,810 | — | — |
| 1946 | 22 | #2,006 | — | — |
| 1945 | 24 | #1,729 | — | — |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,259 | — | — |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,930 | — | — |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,760 | — | — |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,128 | — | — |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,106 | — | — |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,607 | — | — |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,643 | — | — |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,366 | — | — |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,648 | — | — |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,736 | — | — |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,021 | — | — |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,139 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,369 | — | — |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,305 | — | — |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,682 | — | — |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,305 | — | — |
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).