Meghan

Meaning: Pearl
Origin: Welsh (from Ancient Greek, via Latin and Old French) — Variant of Megan

Girl's name · #1906 in the US (2025) · 80s wave

Popularity over time

Meghan's best rank, #63, came in 1985; it has stepped well back to #1906 today. Roughly 97,000 girls have been named Meghan since 1952.

Meghan climbed sharply in 2018, with SSA linking the rise to Meghan Markle’s royal wedding that year.

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 15 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

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#813 in Ecuador (2025) · #1,049 in Ireland (2025) · #2,375 in England & Wales (2025) · #2,057 in Canada (2024).

Meghan Trainor — American singer-songwriter (born 1993)
Meghan Ory — Canadian actress
Meghan Klingenberg — American soccer player
Meghan McCain — American columnist, author, and television personality (born 1984)
Meghan Musnicki — American rower

Among 242 notable people named Meghan:

Sports figures appear 2.29× more often than among typical names — e.g. Meghan Klingenberg, American soccer player.

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