Meghan
Meghan is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 152 births. Its best rank was 63rd, in 1985.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1520.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19854,670 births
- Best rank
- #63in 1985
- Since 1952
- 96,398people given the name
The story in the numbers
96,398 girls have been named Meghan in the United States since 1952, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1985, with 4,670 births — 0.27% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 152 births in 2024, against 4,670 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1990, and the 1980s alone account for 38%. It has spent 51 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 12 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Meghan | |
|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 102 | |
| 1960s | 958 | |
| 1970s | 9,359 | |
| 1980s | 36,208 | |
| 1990s | 31,500 | |
| 2000s | 14,085 | |
| 2010s | 3,043 | |
| 2020s | 1,143 |
In 1985, its biggest year
Meghan was the 63rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1985 were Jessica, Ashley, Jennifer, Amanda and Sarah. See all of 1985.
Names that rose and fell with Meghan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lynseypeak 1982
- Tarinpeak 1985
- Casseypeak 1986
- Meganpeak 1990
- Lyndseypeak 1990
- Jesicapeak 1987
- Kassipeak 1986
- Briannepeak 1979
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.