Meaning not yet researched.
Meghan: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 102 in 2025. Its best rank was #63 in 1985.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #63 in 1985; #1,906 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Meghan in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,906 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1985, at #63.
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Meghan: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 102 girls in 2025. Peak: #63 in 1985 · most girls in one year: 4,669 (1985).
In 2025, 102 US girls were named Meghan, making it the 1,906th most common girls’ name of the year, down 459 places from #1,447 in 2024. That is 50 fewer than the 152 girls named Meghan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #63, reached in 1985. That year also had the most girls given the name: 4,669. For comparison, it was #1,083 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Meghan in 73 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1952 with 6 babies. In all, 96,727 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 36,353 babies named Meghan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,411 US girls were named Meghan; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 412. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,758 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Meghan ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #788 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Megan (441,169 babies since 1880), Maegan (9,171 babies since 1880), Meghann (3,788 babies since 1880) and Meaghan (14,043 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Meeghan, Meghin and Meaghen are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Meg.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Meeghan (235), Meghin (193), Meaghen (172), Meaghann (145), Meghen (135), Meghanne (98), Mihan (47), Meghaan (36), Mehan (32), Meahan (7), Mehaan (6), Meghean (5), 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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 21 | #788 | #760 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,123 | #467 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,556 | #903 |
| New York | 8 | #1,611 | #913 |
| Texas | 12 | #1,874 | #1,518 |
| California | 10 | #2,038 | #1,574 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 102 | #1,906 | — | — |
| 2024 | 152 | #1,447 | — | — |
| 2023 | 207 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 2022 | 219 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 2021 | 262 | #989 | — | — |
| 2020 | 304 | #880 | — | — |
| 2019 | 385 | #735 | — | — |
| 2018 | 412 | #708 | — | — |
| 2017 | 166 | #1,391 | — | — |
| 2016 | 202 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 2015 | 242 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 2014 | 214 | #1,159 | — | — |
| 2013 | 230 | #1,077 | — | — |
| 2012 | 301 | #883 | — | — |
| 2011 | 376 | #736 | — | — |
| 2010 | 517 | #566 | — | — |
| 2009 | 621 | #494 | — | — |
| 2008 | 694 | #455 | — | — |
| 2007 | 878 | #373 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,021 | #322 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,219 | #271 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,557 | #217 | 8 | #8,654 |
| 2003 | 1,695 | #194 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,862 | #174 | — | — |
| 2001 | 2,024 | #159 | 6 | #10,103 |
| 2000 | 2,514 | #134 | — | — |
| 1999 | 2,578 | #127 | — | — |
| 1998 | 2,696 | #121 | — | — |
| 1997 | 2,868 | #113 | — | — |
| 1996 | 2,773 | #113 | — | — |
| 1995 | 2,963 | #112 | 8 | #6,778 |
| 1994 | 3,227 | #100 | 7 | #7,487 |
| 1993 | 3,401 | #93 | — | — |
| 1992 | 3,595 | #91 | — | — |
| 1991 | 3,704 | #94 | — | — |
| 1990 | 3,695 | #91 | 13 | #4,327 |
| 1989 | 3,856 | #80 | 18 | #3,286 |
| 1988 | 3,609 | #81 | 10 | #4,656 |
| 1987 | 3,770 | #78 | 21 | #2,615 |
| 1986 | 3,869 | #71 | 16 | #3,079 |
| 1985 | 4,669 | #63 | 13 | #3,535 |
| 1984 | 4,505 | #65 | 22 | #2,341 |
| 1983 | 3,888 | #75 | 15 | #3,021 |
| 1982 | 2,734 | #110 | 9 | #4,464 |
| 1981 | 2,614 | #116 | 10 | #4,043 |
| 1980 | 2,692 | #114 | 13 | #3,368 |
| 1979 | 2,571 | #121 | 9 | #4,278 |
| 1978 | 1,679 | #164 | 11 | #3,538 |
| 1977 | 1,142 | #216 | 6 | #5,595 |
| 1976 | 865 | #270 | — | — |
| 1975 | 821 | #292 | 6 | #5,224 |
| 1974 | 609 | #355 | 6 | #5,028 |
| 1973 | 503 | #399 | — | — |
| 1972 | 441 | #436 | — | — |
| 1971 | 346 | #530 | — | — |
| 1970 | 381 | #516 | — | — |
| 1969 | 233 | #656 | — | — |
| 1968 | 143 | #856 | — | — |
| 1967 | 119 | #939 | — | — |
| 1966 | 106 | #996 | — | — |
| 1965 | 85 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 1964 | 79 | #1,243 | — | — |
| 1963 | 74 | #1,286 | — | — |
| 1962 | 47 | #1,664 | — | — |
| 1961 | 39 | #1,857 | — | — |
| 1960 | 33 | #1,999 | — | — |
| 1959 | 51 | #1,530 | — | — |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,332 | — | — |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,786 | — | — |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,154 | — | — |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,274 | — | — |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,996 | — | — |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,333 | — | — |
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).