Megha
Megha was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,683 among girls’ names; 1,191 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,170 Americans named Megha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 15 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Megha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Megha?
#8,683 among girls’ names, 2025
Megha fell from #6,895 in 2015 to #8,683 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.1 to 7.5 per million.
75 babies in 2001, the peak
Megha peaked in 2001, when 75 girls were given it, #2,179 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,683 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,567 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,323 | 11.8 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,903 | 12.8 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,876 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,780 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,413 | 19.1 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,634 | 17.6 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,312 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,487 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,895 | 10.1 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,529 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,273 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,044 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,073 | 12.5 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,731 | 13.5 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,992 | 21.2 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,527 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,330 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,055 | 19.5 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,086 | 18.9 |
| 2004 | 47 | #3,243 | 25.6 |
| 2003 | 40 | #3,570 | 21.9 |
| 2002 | 48 | #3,043 | 26.7 |
| 2001 | 75 | #2,179 | 41.7 |
| 2000 | 52 | #2,802 | 28.6 |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,768 | 28.2 |
| 1998 | 39 | #3,198 | 22.1 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,413 | 19.5 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,476 | 18.8 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,173 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,200 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,117 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,466 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,312 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,461 | 11.6 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,194 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,772 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,487 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,835 | 12.8 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,780 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,184 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,899 | 12.0 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,852 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,163 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,859 | 4.8 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,281 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Megha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Megha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Megha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Megha, and how old are they?
1,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,191 Americans ever recorded as Megha. The median Megha alive today is 24 years old; half are between 15 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 2,861 people named Megha (2,825 women and girls, 36 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,076 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Megha rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 13 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 299 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 610 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 251 |
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 Megha born?
The states with the most babies named Megha are California, New Jersey and Illinois, with 82% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 128 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 89 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Illinois | 34 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 33 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Megha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Megha
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 Megha and names like it
- Compare Megha and DeisyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMegha peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Megha since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Megha.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Megha alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.