Meighan
Meighan was last recorded in 2003, when 5 babies were given it; 564 Americans have been recorded with it between 1965 and 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Meighan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Meighan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Meighan 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 Meighan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,450, in 2003; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
43 babies in 1988, the peak
Meighan peaked in 1988, when 43 girls were given it, #2,509 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 | #17,450 | 2.7 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,024 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,437 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,543 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,382 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,642 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,926 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,156 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,534 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,606 | 12.2 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 21 | #4,792 | 11.4 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,684 | 15.5 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,622 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,745 | 14.6 |
| 1988 | 43 | #2,509 | 24.1 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,215 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,113 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,237 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,120 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,685 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,464 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,270 | 10.8 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,177 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,621 | 13.7 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,344 | 15.0 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,166 | 11.1 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,273 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,358 | 14.4 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,615 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,432 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,764 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,743 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,832 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,153 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,391 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,834 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,736 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,263 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Meighan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Meighan has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Meighan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Meighan, and how old are they?
An estimated 542 Americans named Meighan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 35 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 596 people named Meighan (587 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 548 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 601,816 babies since 1880, Meighan is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 403 babies recorded by SSA was a Meighan (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 Meighan
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 Meighan and names like it
- Compare Meighan and MeganBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMeighan peaked in 1988.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Meighan since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Meighan.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Meighan alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.