as a First Name
In origin a Welsh pet form of Meg; nowadays it is much used as an independent first name throughout Britain and in America and elsewhere in the English-speaking world.
| 180th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 334,846
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 427,354
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Kansas
- has the most people named Megan per capita
- 1985
- marked the height of its popularity
99.95%
0.05%
0.18%
55+
55+
16%
30-54
30-54
51%
13-29
13-29
33%
0-12
0-12
Top state populations
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