Maghan
Maghan was last recorded in 2005, when 5 babies were given it; 496 Americans have been recorded with it between 1975 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maghan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maghan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,131, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
39 babies in 1985, the peak
Maghan peaked in 1985, when 39 girls were given it, #2,521 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | #18,131 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,009 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,758 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,624 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,072 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,369 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,363 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,424 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,137 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,590 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 15 | #6,136 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,318 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,773 | 14.9 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,766 | 14.7 |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,129 | 18.4 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,903 | 20.2 |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,293 | 16.1 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,601 | 14.0 |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,521 | 22.7 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,288 | 15.4 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,893 | 12.0 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,266 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,129 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,581 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,762 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,362 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,149 | 6.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,630 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maghan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maghan has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maghan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maghan, and how old are they?
An estimated 482 Americans named Maghan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 33 and 41. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 441 people named Maghan (438 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 486 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Maghan?
Maghan is a less common spelling of Magan: SSA has recorded 496 Maghan and 2,739 Magan since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 17,846 babies since 1880, Maghan is the sixth most given (2.8% 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 Maghan
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 Maghan and names like it
- Compare Maghan and MaganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMaghan peaked in 1985.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maghan since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Maghan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Maghan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.