Meaghan
Meaghan was last recorded in 2020, when 13 babies were given it; 14,043 Americans have been recorded with it between 1955 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,700 Americans named Meaghan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 30 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Meaghan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Meaghan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Meaghan is “a female given name from Welsh, a pseudo-Irish spelling of the Welsh Megan.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Meaghan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,257, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
744 babies in 1986, the peak
Meaghan peaked in 1986, when 744 girls were given it, #325 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 13 | #8,257 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,223 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,303 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,462 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,259 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,893 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,570 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,769 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,792 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 47 | #3,441 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 54 | #3,106 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 68 | #2,697 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 92 | #2,181 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 110 | #1,891 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 111 | #1,841 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 140 | #1,498 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 155 | #1,360 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 203 | #1,088 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 242 | #926 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 293 | #807 | 0.16 |
| 2000 | 342 | #690 | 0.19 |
| 1999 | 364 | #644 | 0.21 |
| 1998 | 414 | #584 | 0.23 |
| 1997 | 448 | #532 | 0.26 |
| 1996 | 452 | #523 | 0.26 |
| 1995 | 520 | #475 | 0.30 |
| 1994 | 634 | #397 | 0.36 |
| 1993 | 564 | #442 | 0.31 |
| 1992 | 628 | #406 | 0.34 |
| 1991 | 679 | #378 | 0.36 |
| 1990 | 722 | #367 | 0.38 |
| 1989 | 737 | #348 | 0.40 |
| 1988 | 643 | #375 | 0.36 |
| 1987 | 652 | #364 | 0.38 |
| 1986 | 744 | #325 | 0.43 |
| 1985 | 633 | #368 | 0.37 |
| 1984 | 514 | #414 | 0.31 |
| 1983 | 462 | #446 | 0.28 |
| 1982 | 276 | #647 | 0.16 |
| 1981 | 340 | #548 | 0.20 |
| 1980 | 341 | #546 | 0.21 |
| 1979 | 302 | #596 | 0.19 |
| 1978 | 251 | #646 | 0.16 |
| 1977 | 112 | #1,136 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 88 | #1,267 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 93 | #1,237 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 58 | #1,626 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 62 | #1,520 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 44 | #1,909 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 43 | #1,990 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 50 | #1,794 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 34 | #2,190 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,762 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,835 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,679 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,365 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,463 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,338 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,711 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,991 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,520 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,413 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Meaghan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Meaghan has been given almost only to girls: 7 boys in 62 years of records.
Girls and boys named Meaghan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meaghan, and how old are they?
13,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 14,043 Americans ever recorded as Meaghan. The median Meaghan alive today is 36 years old; half are between 30 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 13,115 people named Meaghan (13,102 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,751 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 45 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,460 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8,960 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,070 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 121 |
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 Meaghan born?
The states with the most babies named Meaghan are Massachusetts, New York and California, with 40% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 1,984 | not ranked | 5.8× |
| New York | 1,966 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| California | 814 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 643 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 598 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 580 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Florida | 476 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 468 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 432 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Connecticut | 348 | not ranked | 1.9× |
Where Meaghan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Meaghan is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1955 it was given 5.8 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 Meaghan 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 602,434 babies since 1880, Meaghan is the fourth most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 403 babies recorded by SSA was a Meaghan (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Meaghan
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 Meaghan and names like it
- Compare Meaghan and MeganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMeaghan peaked in 1986.
- Massachusetts’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Meaghan since 1910.
- Welsh namesWiktionary’s origin for Meaghan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Meaghan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Meaghan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.