Megan
Megan is ranked 761st among girls in 2024 (369 births). Its best rank was 10th, in 1985, 1992, 1994.
- Rank in 2024
- #761down 67 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3690.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 199020,259 births
- Best rank
- #10first in 1985
- Since 1922
- 440,869people given the name
The story in the numbers
439,765 girls have been named Megan in the United States since 1922, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1990, with 20,259 births — 1.1% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 369 births in 2024, against 20,259 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1991, and the 1990s alone account for 36%. It has spent 73 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 34 of them in the top 100 and 3 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,104 boys have also been given it, 0.25% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Megan | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 39 | |
| 1930s | 47 | |
| 1940s | 191 | |
| 1950s | 1,887 | |
| 1960s | 5,917 | |
| 1970s | 37,360 | |
| 1980s | 153,502 | |
| 1990s | 160,373 | |
| 2000s | 66,832 | |
| 2010s | 11,490 | |
| 2020s | 2,127 |
In 1990, its biggest year
Megan was the 11th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1990 were Jessica, Ashley, Brittany, Amanda and Samantha. See all of 1990.
Names that rose and fell with Megan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Meaghanpeak 1986
- Raechelpeak 1991
- Shantiapeak 1989
- Meghanpeak 1985
- Kassipeak 1986
- Mayrapeak 1987
- Kasiepeak 1987
- Krystapeak 1993
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.