# Meg (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/meg/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,321 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 5,321 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 685, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 53 | 3,200 |
| 2009 | 50 | 3,338 |
| 2010 | 52 | 3,189 |
| 2011 | 30 | 4,775 |
| 2012 | 27 | 5,200 |
| 2013 | 24 | 5,603 |
| 2014 | 14 | 8,354 |
| 2015 | 20 | 6,386 |
| 2016 | 19 | 6,592 |
| 2017 | 7 | 13,627 |
| 2018 | 18 | 6,701 |
| 2019 | 10 | 10,229 |
| 2020 | 11 | 9,339 |
| 2021 | 15 | 7,524 |
| 2022 | 6 | 14,720 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 23 | 1,196 |
| 2008 | 20 | 1,391 |
| 2009 | 13 | 1,909 |
| 2010 | 15 | 1,815 |
| 2011 | 13 | 2,025 |
| 2012 | 12 | 2,215 |
| 2013 | 8 | 2,887 |
| 2014 | 5 | 4,003 |
| 2015 | 7 | 3,252 |
| 2016 | 8 | 2,966 |
| 2017 | 7 | 3,229 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5,666 |
| 2019 | 4 | 4,686 |
| 2020 | 6 | 3,447 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3,961 |

## People named Meg

- Meg Whitman, American business executive
- Meg Cabot, American novelist and writer
- Meg Tilly, American-Canadian actress
- Meg White, American drummer
- Meg Foster, American actress
- Meg Harris, Australian swimmer
- Meg Lanning, Australian cricketer
- Meg Rosoff, American-British children's writer (born 1956)
- C. Megan Urry, American astrophysicist
- Meg LeFauve, American film producer, screenwriter and television producer
- Meg Myers, American singer-songwriter and musician
- Meg Mundy, British-born American actress (1915-2016)

## 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.