Maigan
Maigan was last recorded in 2005, when 8 babies were given it; 239 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 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 Maigan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maigan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,540, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 1989, the peak
Maigan peaked in 1989, when 19 girls were given it, #4,775 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 8 | #12,540 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,322 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,743 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,907 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,272 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,893 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,118 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,598 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,141 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,923 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 8 | #10,166 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,825 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,557 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,976 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,775 | 10.3 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,866 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,582 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,478 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,894 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,736 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,398 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,808 | 3.6 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,722 | 7.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maigan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maigan has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maigan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maigan, and how old are they?
An estimated 233 Americans named Maigan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 30 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 257 people named Maigan (251 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 235 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 18,542 babies since 1880, Maigan is the eighth most given (1.3% 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 Maigan
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 Maigan and names like it
- Compare Maigan and MaeganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMaigan peaked in 1989.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maigan since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Maigan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Maigan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.