Meaghen
Meaghen was last recorded in 2001, when 6 babies were given it; 172 Americans have been recorded with it between 1978 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Meaghen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Meaghen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,710, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1985, the peak
Meaghen peaked in 1985, when 17 girls were given it, #4,576 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 6 | #14,710 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,370 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,714 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,262 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,194 | 4.6 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,899 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,341 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,900 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,281 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,798 | 6.5 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 11 | #6,944 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,767 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,012 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,576 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,751 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,639 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,606 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,155 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,755 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,781 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Meaghen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Meaghen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Meaghen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meaghen, and how old are they?
An estimated 167 Americans named Meaghen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 34 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 218 people named Meaghen (217 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 168 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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
Meaghen is a less common spelling of Meagen: SSA has recorded 172 Meaghen and 1,182 Meagen since 1880.
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Meaghen
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.