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Morgan
Pronounced /ˈmɔɹɡən/
Rank in 2024
#275
Born in 2024
1,141
Peak year
1995 · #23
Origin
Irish
Also recorded for boys:560 in 2024 (#531)
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,141 girls were named Morgan, about 1 in every 1,414.
- It peaked in 1995 with 10,877 babies, ranked #23.
- It first shows up in the records in 1918.
- 222,645 girls have been named Morgan since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Morgan per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.1Gen X1965–80
- 3.0Millennials1981–96
- 3.9Gen Z1997–12
- 1.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 5 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 11 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 269 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 2,847 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Millennials: 84,257 babies, 2.98 per 1,000. Gen Z: 112,063 babies, 3.86 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 23,193 babies, 1.14 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
from Old Welsh Morcant, possibly from *mor (“sea”) (Welsh môr) or *mọr (“great”) (Old Welsh maur) + *kantos (“circle”) (Welsh cant), meaning “great chief” or “sea chief”.
- (countable) A unisex given name.
- A male or female given name
- A male given name from Irish, an adopted anglicization of Murchadh (Murrough).
- Origin
- Irish
- Say it
- /ˈmɔɹɡən/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Morgan, CC BY-SA 4.0.