Meghann
Meghann was last recorded in 2012, when 7 babies were given it; 3,788 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,660 Americans named Meghann and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 36 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Meghann by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Meghann mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Meghann is “a female given name from Welsh, a rare modern spelling variant of Megan.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Meghann?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,497, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
374 babies in 1979, the peak
Meghann peaked in 1979, when 374 girls were given it, #517 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 7 | #14,497 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,601 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,889 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,219 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,858 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,366 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,107 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,900 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,559 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,322 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 36 | #3,696 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,400 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 39 | #3,436 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,882 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,329 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,076 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 56 | #2,357 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 83 | #1,754 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 83 | #1,759 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 101 | #1,547 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 105 | #1,502 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 112 | #1,429 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 133 | #1,240 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 142 | #1,156 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 162 | #1,011 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 186 | #899 | 0.11 |
| 1986 | 212 | #796 | 0.12 |
| 1985 | 260 | #688 | 0.15 |
| 1984 | 236 | #704 | 0.14 |
| 1983 | 297 | #601 | 0.18 |
| 1982 | 166 | #912 | 0.10 |
| 1981 | 170 | #889 | 0.10 |
| 1980 | 228 | #731 | 0.14 |
| 1979 | 374 | #517 | 0.23 |
| 1978 | 301 | #572 | 0.20 |
| 1977 | 53 | #1,892 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Meghann a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Meghann has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Meghann: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meghann, and how old are they?
3,660 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,788 Americans ever recorded as Meghann. The median Meghann alive today is 41 years old; half are between 36 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 3,525 people named Meghann (3,525 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,696 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 912 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,430 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 324 |
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 Meghann born?
The states with the most babies named Meghann are California, Ohio and Michigan, with 30% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 369 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 177 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 170 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 170 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 169 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 169 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 151 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 111 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Massachusetts | 99 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 81 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Meghann is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Meghann is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1977 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Meghann with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 560,250 babies since 1880, Meghann is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 403 babies recorded by SSA was a Meghann (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 Meghann
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 Meghann and names like it
- Compare Meghann and MeganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMeghann peaked in 1979.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Meghann since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Meghann.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Meghann alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.