How popular is “Megan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Megan” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Megan” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Megan” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Megan” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Megan” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Megan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Megan” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1922	7	0.000003058	7		100%
1923	13	0.000005646	13		100%
1924	7	0.000002939	7		100%
1926	5	0.000002178	5		100%
1927	7	0.000003018	7		100%
1930	5	0.000002249	5		100%
1931	7	0.000003326	7		100%
1933	7	0.000003501	7		100%
1934	8	0.000003852	8		100%
1935	7	0.000003349	7		100%
1936	7	0.000003369	7		100%
1939	6	0.000002723	6		100%
1940	9	0.000003908	9		100%
1942	12	0.000004393	12		100%
1943	21	0.00000744	21		100%
1944	16	0.000005948	16		100%
1945	24	0.000009047	24		100%
1946	22	0.000006885	22		100%
1947	29	0.00000805	29		100%
1948	28	0.00000811	28		100%
1949	30	0.000008609	30		100%
1950	61	0.000017412	61		100%
1951	86	0.000023346	86		100%
1952	119	0.000031332	119		100%
1953	156	0.000040481	156		100%
1954	153	0.000038435	153		100%
1955	198	0.000049314	198		100%
1956	197	0.00004778	197		100%
1957	258	0.000061397	258		100%
1958	301	0.000072813	301		100%
1959	358	0.000086099	358		100%
1960	364	0.00008763	364		100%
1961	402	0.000097048	402		100%
1962	391	0.000096893	391		100%
1963	432	0.000109141	432		100%
1964	512	0.000131701	512		100%
1965	608	0.000167703	608		100%
1966	655	0.000188454	655		100%
1967	709	0.000208843	709		100%
1968	818	0.000242126	813	5	99%
1969	1031	0.000296663	1031		100%
1970	1268	0.000351586	1268		100%
1971	1506	0.000438766	1500	6	99%
1972	1594	0.00050716	1587	7	99%
1973	2030	0.000672879	2021	9	99%
1974	2830	0.000930921	2818	12	99%
1975	4203	0.001392001	4192	11	99%
1976	4484	0.001477771	4464	20	99%
1977	5340	0.001681099	5320	20	99%
1978	5921	0.001865546	5897	24	99%
1979	8320	0.002500752	8293	27	99%
1980	9169	0.00266192	9134	35	99%
1981	9006	0.00260336	8966	40	99%
1982	9568	0.002727509	9518	50	99%
1983	14174	0.004092583	14124	50	99%
1984	17034	0.004882544	16984	50	99%
1985	20092	0.005629415	20012	80	99%
1986	18652	0.00524363	18591	61	99%
1987	17884	0.004960043	17823	61	99%
1988	18631	0.00504216	18570	61	99%
1989	19862	0.005166413	19780	82	99%
1990	20303	0.005136778	20259	44	100%
1991	19309	0.004957044	19278	31	100%
1992	17875	0.004653405	17842	33	100%
1993	16415	0.004353789	16385	30	100%
1994	16611	0.004468142	16580	31	100%
1995	15558	0.004248318	15530	28	100%
1996	14790	0.004055171	14770	20	100%
1997	14262	0.003933532	14244	18	100%
1998	13277	0.003609639	13256	21	100%
1999	12240	0.003313601	12229	11	100%
2000	11450	0.003029177	11436	14	100%
2001	10317	0.002756058	10300	17	100%
2002	9226	0.002467973	9210	16	100%
2003	7810	0.00205401	7800	10	100%
2004	6722	0.001759261	6687	35	99%
2005	5862	0.001524639	5856	6	100%
2006	4953	0.001251962	4945	8	100%
2007	4133	0.001033849	4124	9	100%
2008	3416	0.000869064	3416		100%
2009	3063	0.000801796	3058	5	100%
2010	2406	0.00065102	2406		100%
2011	1915	0.00052354	1915		100%
2012	1561	0.00042681	1561		100%
2013	1246	0.000341776	1246		100%
2014	1070	0.000288692	1064	6	99%
2015	853	0.000230484	853		100%
2016	750	0.000204432	750		100%
2017	631	0.000176445	631		100%
2018	565	0.000160699	565		100%
2019	499	0.000143765	499		100%
2020	453	0.000135605	453		100%
2021	490	0.00014463	490		100%
2022	399	0.000117938	399		100%
2023	416	0.000125634	416		100%
2024	369	0.000110861	369		100%

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