Meg — girls' name

What the Data Says About Meg

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,321 babies named Meg between 1941 and 2022, spanning 82 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Meg currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1959, when 196 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Meg performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 1,343 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Meg shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 421 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Meg in 26 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Meg 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 5,321 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.