# Meagan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/meagan/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Welsh |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 41,619 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 72 / 41,547 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 200, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 153 | 1,476 |
| 2011 | 145 | 1,523 |
| 2012 | 119 | 1,740 |
| 2013 | 106 | 1,895 |
| 2014 | 89 | 2,149 |
| 2015 | 71 | 2,543 |
| 2016 | 57 | 2,954 |
| 2017 | 47 | 3,372 |
| 2018 | 40 | 3,772 |
| 2019 | 23 | 5,560 |
| 2020 | 18 | 6,535 |
| 2021 | 17 | 6,880 |
| 2022 | 12 | 8,866 |
| 2023 | 12 | 8,802 |
| 2024 | 11 | 9,355 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 12 | 3,601 |
| 1985 | 12 | 3,725 |
| 1987 | 12 | 3,890 |
| 1988 | 10 | 4,655 |
| 1989 | 9 | 5,444 |
| 1990 | 6 | 7,769 |
| 1992 | 5 | 9,347 |
| 1994 | 6 | 8,427 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 9 | 2,112 |
| 2005 | 8 | 2,438 |
| 2006 | 9 | 2,320 |
| 2007 | 10 | 2,233 |
| 2008 | 10 | 2,292 |
| 2009 | 8 | 2,759 |
| 2010 | 5 | 4,012 |
| 2011 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,681 |
| 2013 | 6 | 3,536 |
| 2014 | 5 | 4,003 |
| 2015 | 5 | 4,103 |
| 2016 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2017 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5,666 |

## People named Meagan

- Meagan Good, American actress and producer
- Meagan Duhamel, Canadian pair skater
- Meagan Tandy, American actress and model
- Meagan Holder, actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.