Morgan — #275 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Morgan

The Social Security Administration has registered 222,645 babies named Morgan between 1918 and 2024, spanning 107 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Morgan currently holds the #275 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1995, when 10,877 babies received it in a single year. Morgan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 45,110 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Morgan performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 91,196 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Morgan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 15,440 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Morgan in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Morgan in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 222,645 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.