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Morgan

Pronounced /ˈmɔɹɡən/

Rank in 2024
#531
Born in 2024
560
Peak year
1995 · #236
Origin
Irish
Also recorded for girls:1,141 in 2024 (#275)

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 560 boys were named Morgan, about 1 in every 3,063.
  • It peaked in 1995 with 1,258 babies, ranked #236.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 45,110 boys 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.

  1. 0.2
    Greatest
  2. 0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. 0.2
    Gen X
  5. 0.4
    Millennials
  6. 0.4
    Gen Z
  7. 0.2
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 2,668 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Silent: 2,176 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Boomers: 3,486 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Gen X: 5,329 babies, 0.20 per 1,000. Millennials: 13,693 babies, 0.45 per 1,000. Gen Z: 12,172 babies, 0.39 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 5,048 babies, 0.23 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.