Megann
Megann was last recorded in 2011, when 6 babies were given it; 797 Americans have been recorded with it between 1967 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Megann by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Megann?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,114, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
40 babies in 1988, the peak
Megann peaked in 1988, when 40 girls were given it, #2,681 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | #16,114 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,211 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,261 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,518 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,067 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,899 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,070 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,091 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,299 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,518 | 9.4 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 30 | #4,135 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,676 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,279 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,777 | 17.2 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,965 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,333 | 19.3 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,199 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 34 | #3,320 | 18.8 |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,043 | 14.1 |
| 1991 | 36 | #3,127 | 19.2 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,776 | 14.7 |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,447 | 16.3 |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,681 | 22.5 |
| 1987 | 32 | #3,005 | 18.4 |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,761 | 20.4 |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,910 | 18.6 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,385 | 14.8 |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,953 | 17.4 |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,383 | 14.8 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,869 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,797 | 12.6 |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,899 | 18.7 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,835 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,412 | 7.8 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,377 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,322 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,046 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,005 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,124 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,527 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Megann a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Megann has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Megann: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Megann, and how old are they?
An estimated 775 Americans named Megann and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 29 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 768 people named Megann (766 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 781 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% 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).
How common is the spelling Megann?
Megann is a less common spelling of Megan: SSA has recorded 797 Megann and 441,169 Megan since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 588,688 babies since 1880, Megann is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 403 babies recorded by SSA was a Megann (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 Megann
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 Megann and names like it
- Compare Megann and MeganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMegann peaked in 1988.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Megann since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Megann.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Megann alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.