Megen
Megen was last recorded in 2006, when 6 babies were given it; 682 Americans have been recorded with it between 1960 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Megen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Megen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,455, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
43 babies in 1985, the peak
Megen peaked in 1985, when 43 girls were given it, #2,342 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 6 | #16,455 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,774 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,300 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,447 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,930 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,843 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,363 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,036 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,033 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,148 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 18 | #5,444 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,952 | 11.4 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,463 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,478 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,401 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,500 | 16.5 |
| 1990 | 26 | #3,967 | 13.7 |
| 1989 | 42 | #2,695 | 22.8 |
| 1988 | 35 | #2,953 | 19.7 |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,228 | 16.7 |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,816 | 19.8 |
| 1985 | 43 | #2,342 | 25.0 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,677 | 13.1 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,898 | 12.0 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,851 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,810 | 12.6 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,381 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,831 | 19.3 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,097 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,563 | 13.7 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,078 | 10.9 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,064 | 11.0 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,157 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,442 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,879 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,125 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,643 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,436 | 2.6 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,147 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Megen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Megen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Megen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Megen, and how old are they?
An estimated 659 Americans named Megen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 33 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 741 people named Megen (740 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 665 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 586,082 babies since 1880, Megen is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 403 babies recorded by SSA was a Megen (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 Megen
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 Megen and names like it
- Compare Megen and MeganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMegen peaked in 1985.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Megen since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Megen.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Megen alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.