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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Meghan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Meghan” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Meghan” 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 “Meghan” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Meghan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Meghan” 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
1952 6 0.00000158 6 100%
1954 7 0.000001758 7 100%
1955 9 0.000002242 9 100%
1956 7 0.000001698 7 100%
1957 8 0.000001904 8 100%
1958 14 0.000003387 14 100%
1959 51 0.000012266 51 100%
1960 33 0.000007945 33 100%
1961 39 0.000009415 39 100%
1962 47 0.000011647 47 100%
1963 74 0.000018695 74 100%
1964 79 0.000020321 79 100%
1965 85 0.000023445 85 100%
1966 106 0.000030498 106 100%
1967 119 0.000035053 119 100%
1968 143 0.000042328 143 100%
1969 233 0.000067044 233 100%
1970 381 0.000105642 381 100%
1971 346 0.000100805 346 100%
1972 441 0.000140312 441 100%
1973 503 0.000166728 503 100%
1974 615 0.000202303 609 6 98%
1975 827 0.000273896 821 6 99%
1976 865 0.000285074 865 100%
1977 1148 0.000361405 1142 6 99%
1978 1691 0.000532788 1680 11 99%
1979 2580 0.000775473 2571 9 99%
1980 2705 0.000785309 2692 13 99%
1981 2625 0.000758808 2615 10 99%
1982 2742 0.00078165 2733 9 99%
1983 3903 0.001126947 3888 15 99%
1984 4527 0.001297598 4505 22 99%
1985 4683 0.001312092 4670 13 99%
1986 3885 0.001092189 3869 16 99%
1987 3792 0.001051693 3771 21 99%
1988 3619 0.00097942 3609 10 99%
1989 3874 0.001007687 3856 18 99%
1990 3708 0.000938146 3695 13 99%
1991 3703 0.000950641 3703 100%
1992 3595 0.000935888 3595 100%
1993 3401 0.000902055 3401 100%
1994 3234 0.000869904 3227 7 100%
1995 2971 0.000811271 2963 8 99%
1996 2773 0.00076031 2773 100%
1997 2868 0.000791009 2868 100%
1998 2697 0.000733238 2697 100%
1999 2578 0.000697914 2578 100%
2000 2514 0.000665096 2514 100%
2001 2030 0.000542289 2024 6 99%
2002 1862 0.000498089 1862 100%
2003 1695 0.000445781 1695 100%
2004 1565 0.000409587 1557 8 99%
2005 1219 0.000317048 1219 100%
2006 1021 0.000258077 1021 100%
2007 878 0.000219627 878 100%
2008 694 0.00017656 694 100%
2009 621 0.000162558 621 100%
2010 516 0.00013962 516 100%
2011 376 0.000102794 376 100%
2012 301 0.0000823 301 100%
2013 230 0.000063089 230 100%
2014 214 0.000057738 214 100%
2015 242 0.000065389 242 100%
2016 202 0.00005506 202 100%
2017 165 0.000046138 165 100%
2018 412 0.000117182 412 100%
2019 385 0.000110921 385 100%
2020 304 0.000091002 304 100%
2021 262 0.000077333 262 100%
2022 219 0.000064733 219 100%
2023 206 0.000062213 206 100%
2024 152 0.000045666 152 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Meghan:

  1. Meggin
  2. Megh
  3. Megha
  4. Meghaan
  5. Megham
  6. Meghan (this page)
  7. Meghana
  8. Meghann
  9. Meghanne
  10. Meghean
  11. Meghen