Maegan
Maegan was last recorded in 2023, when 7 babies were given it; 9,171 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,960 Americans named Maegan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 26 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maegan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maegan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maegan is “a female given name, variant of Megan.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maegan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,936, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
431 babies in 1991, the peak
Maegan peaked in 1991, when 431 girls were given it, #547 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 | #12,936 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,784 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,767 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,458 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,594 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,955 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,327 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,691 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 28 | #4,934 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,758 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 46 | #3,439 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,959 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,822 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 82 | #2,330 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 92 | #2,177 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 103 | #2,026 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 175 | #1,384 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 175 | #1,334 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 148 | #1,441 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 193 | #1,168 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 225 | #1,025 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 248 | #906 | 0.14 |
| 2001 | 261 | #882 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 295 | #777 | 0.16 |
| 1999 | 304 | #737 | 0.17 |
| 1998 | 357 | #648 | 0.20 |
| 1997 | 333 | #660 | 0.19 |
| 1996 | 289 | #727 | 0.16 |
| 1995 | 314 | #678 | 0.18 |
| 1994 | 387 | #587 | 0.22 |
| 1993 | 371 | #616 | 0.21 |
| 1992 | 351 | #644 | 0.19 |
| 1991 | 431 | #547 | 0.23 |
| 1990 | 402 | #577 | 0.21 |
| 1989 | 426 | #537 | 0.23 |
| 1988 | 421 | #524 | 0.24 |
| 1987 | 420 | #505 | 0.24 |
| 1986 | 391 | #525 | 0.23 |
| 1985 | 387 | #519 | 0.22 |
| 1984 | 245 | #686 | 0.15 |
| 1983 | 186 | #827 | 0.11 |
| 1982 | 138 | #1,049 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 122 | #1,131 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 131 | #1,079 | 0.08 |
| 1979 | 123 | #1,105 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 101 | #1,235 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 90 | #1,298 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 41 | #2,122 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 51 | #1,826 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,273 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,843 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,967 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,061 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,120 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maegan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maegan has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maegan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maegan, and how old are they?
8,960 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 9,171 Americans ever recorded as Maegan. The median Maegan alive today is 33 years old; half are between 26 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 8,232 people named Maegan (8,223 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,991 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 558 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,140 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,070 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 191 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Maegan born?
The states with the most babies named Maegan are Texas, California and Florida, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,306 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| California | 709 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 449 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 383 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Alabama | 313 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Michigan | 311 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 283 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Louisiana | 272 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Georgia | 265 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 233 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Maegan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maegan is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1970 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Maegan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 18,701 babies since 1880, Maegan is the most given (49% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Maegan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Maegan and names like it
- Compare Maegan and MagenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMaegan peaked in 1991.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maegan since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Maegan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Maegan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.