Meaghan — girls' name

What the Data Says About Meaghan

The Social Security Administration has registered 14,036 babies named Meaghan between 1955 and 2020, spanning 66 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Meaghan currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1986, when 744 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Meaghan performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 5,425 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Meaghan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Massachusetts, which accounts for 1,984 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Meaghan in 41 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Meaghan in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 14,036 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.