Maygan
Maygan was last recorded in 2016, when 5 babies were given it; 612 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maygan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maygan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maygan 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 Maygan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,937, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1997, the peak
Maygan peaked in 1997, when 34 girls were given it, #3,411 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | #17,937 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,685 | 4.5 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,620 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,054 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,100 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,878 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,727 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,729 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,162 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,669 | 9.8 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 17 | #6,789 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,819 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,073 | 17.2 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,734 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,258 | 15.2 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,327 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,411 | 19.5 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,137 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,172 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,325 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,477 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,168 | 13.6 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,926 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,327 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,222 | 17.9 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,421 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,075 | 12.1 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,510 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,339 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,936 | 11.9 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,336 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,679 | 5.9 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,267 | 3.1 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,261 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maygan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maygan has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maygan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maygan, and how old are they?
An estimated 600 Americans named Maygan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 24 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 558 people named Maygan (557 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 603 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 18,701 babies since 1880, Maygan is the sixth most given (3.3% 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 Maygan
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 Maygan and names like it
- Compare Maygan and MaeganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMaygan peaked in 1997.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maygan since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Maygan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Maygan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.