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Megan
Pronounced /ˈmɛɡən/
Rank in 2024
#762
Born in 2024
369
Peak year
1990 · #11
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 369 girls were named Megan, about 1 in every 4,372.
- It peaked in 1990 with 20,259 babies, ranked #11.
- It first shows up in the records in 1922.
- 439,765 girls have been named Megan since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Megan per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.1Boomers1946–64
- 2.0Gen X1965–80
- 9.4Millennials1981–96
- 3.9Gen Z1997–12
- 0.4Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 39 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 129 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 4,097 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen X: 50,310 babies, 1.97 per 1,000. Millennials: 265,012 babies, 9.38 per 1,000. Gen Z: 112,443 babies, 3.87 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 7,735 babies, 0.38 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Borrowed from Welsh Megan, cognate with English Margaret, ultimately from an Indo-Iranian source.
- A diminutive of the female given name Margaret, from Welsh.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈmɛɡən/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Megan, CC BY-SA 4.0.