Morgan
Morgan is a unisex name: 977 girls and 532 boys were given it in 2025 (#312 among girls’ names and #559 among boys’, #448 among all names counting both); 269,269 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Morgan every year since 1980.
An estimated 258,000 Americans named Morgan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 20 and 33.
Morgan is among the most evenly shared names of 2025: #19 of 43 unisex names by how close its split is to half and half.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Morgan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Morgan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Morgan is “a male or female given name” Its etymology gives the senses “sea” (*mor) and “great” (*mọr) and “circle” (*kantos).
Also “a male given name from Irish, an adopted anglicization of Murchadh (Murrough).”
from Old Welsh Morcant, possibly from *mor (“sea”) (Welsh môr) or *mọr (“great”) (Old Welsh maur) + *kantos (“circle”) (Welsh cant), meaning “great chief” or “sea chief”.
/ˈmɔɹɡən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Morgan?
#312 among girls’ names, 2025
Morgan fell from #121 in 2015 to #312 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 1.5 to 0.61 per 1,000.
12,135 babies in 1995, the peak
Morgan peaked in 1995, when 12,135 babies were given it (10,877 girls, #23 among girls’ names). The 1,509 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 12% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 977 | #312 | 532 | #559 |
| 2024 | 1,144 | #277 | 561 | #531 |
| 2023 | 1,249 | #247 | 532 | #550 |
| 2022 | 1,383 | #215 | 550 | #540 |
| 2021 | 1,447 | #205 | 455 | #611 |
| 2020 | 1,491 | #195 | 367 | #695 |
| 2019 | 1,651 | #176 | 334 | #729 |
| 2018 | 1,759 | #163 | 320 | #743 |
| 2017 | 1,929 | #153 | 370 | #680 |
| 2016 | 2,339 | #132 | 410 | #643 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,689 | #121 | 381 | #671 |
| 2014 | 3,006 | #102 | 404 | #652 |
| 2013 | 3,116 | #100 | 367 | #660 |
| 2012 | 3,403 | #82 | 441 | #583 |
| 2011 | 3,672 | #75 | 475 | #539 |
| 2010 | 4,077 | #63 | 499 | #519 |
| 2009 | 4,611 | #57 | 592 | #460 |
| 2008 | 5,333 | #46 | 714 | #416 |
| 2007 | 5,665 | #43 | 729 | #404 |
| 2006 | 6,495 | #35 | 821 | #365 |
| 2005 | 6,749 | #33 | 901 | #334 |
| 2004 | 7,295 | #31 | 1,011 | #310 |
| 2003 | 7,928 | #29 | 748 | #361 |
| 2002 | 8,433 | #29 | 709 | #372 |
| 2001 | 8,735 | #29 | 784 | #349 |
| 2000 | 9,502 | #25 | 839 | #332 |
| 1999 | 9,607 | #24 | 897 | #317 |
| 1998 | 10,217 | #23 | 951 | #298 |
| 1997 | 10,342 | #22 | 1,062 | #266 |
| 1996 | 10,295 | #25 | 1,216 | #244 |
| 1995 | 10,877 | #23 | 1,258 | #236 |
| 1994 | 10,655 | #25 | 1,023 | #272 |
| 1993 | 8,573 | #34 | 862 | #312 |
| 1992 | 7,789 | #41 | 989 | #287 |
| 1991 | 6,794 | #49 | 906 | #288 |
| 1990 | 6,047 | #58 | 936 | #278 |
| 1989 | 4,426 | #69 | 828 | #294 |
| 1988 | 3,796 | #78 | 829 | #281 |
| 1987 | 2,928 | #95 | 770 | #282 |
| 1986 | 2,477 | #113 | 674 | #304 |
| 1985 | 2,283 | #127 | 682 | #298 |
| 1984 | 2,175 | #132 | 700 | #290 |
| 1983 | 1,657 | #167 | 624 | #313 |
| 1982 | 1,716 | #169 | 631 | #313 |
| 1981 | 1,768 | #162 | 766 | #275 |
| 1980 | 1,061 | #244 | 702 | #292 |
| 1979 | 443 | #459 | 503 | #350 |
| 1978 | 258 | #636 | 390 | #391 |
| 1977 | 211 | #732 | 370 | #408 |
| 1976 | 144 | #913 | 303 | #448 |
| 1975 | 114 | #1,045 | 282 | #476 |
| 1974 | 95 | #1,182 | 276 | #480 |
| 1973 | 91 | #1,190 | 255 | #488 |
| 1972 | 58 | #1,584 | 303 | #453 |
| 1971 | 80 | #1,343 | 311 | #464 |
| 1970 | 75 | #1,401 | 336 | #449 |
| 1969 | 62 | #1,513 | 332 | #435 |
| 1968 | 35 | #2,043 | 263 | #469 |
| 1967 | 42 | #1,806 | 270 | #463 |
| 1966 | 34 | #2,011 | 223 | #508 |
| 1965 | 44 | #1,709 | 207 | #536 |
| 1964 | 43 | #1,793 | 224 | #521 |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,754 | 219 | #536 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,547 | 254 | #499 |
| 1961 | 33 | #2,059 | 203 | #554 |
| 1960 | 26 | #2,353 | 250 | #500 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,376 | 225 | #525 |
| 1958 | 22 | #2,491 | 192 | #557 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,111 | 185 | #567 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,636 | 197 | #534 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,923 | 197 | #519 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,640 | 179 | #542 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,891 | 150 | #587 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,358 | 169 | #541 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,233 | 153 | #552 |
| 1950 | under 5 | 121 | #623 | |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,791 | 121 | #619 |
| 1948 | under 5 | 124 | #610 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 175 | #514 | |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,161 | 147 | #528 |
| 1945 | under 5 | 112 | #574 | |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,397 | 128 | #537 |
| 1943 | under 5 | 123 | #571 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 114 | #583 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 100 | #595 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 130 | #507 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 104 | #562 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 116 | #541 | |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,725 | 102 | #572 |
| 1936 | under 5 | 119 | #521 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 131 | #498 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 123 | #529 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 122 | #509 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 140 | #485 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 135 | #495 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 108 | #577 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 138 | #502 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 131 | #528 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 147 | #501 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 154 | #486 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 160 | #480 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 155 | #497 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 154 | #496 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 144 | #514 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 184 | #455 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 160 | #481 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 138 | #507 | |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,355 | 168 | #459 |
| 1917 | under 5 | 179 | #424 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 155 | #450 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 136 | #474 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 125 | #430 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 106 | #421 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 78 | #445 | |
| 1911 | under 5 | 54 | #387 | |
| 1910 | under 5 | 45 | #391 | |
| 1909 | under 5 | 34 | #431 | |
| 1908 | under 5 | 33 | #420 | |
| 1907 | under 5 | 21 | #532 | |
| 1906 | under 5 | 25 | #452 | |
| 1905 | under 5 | 30 | #387 | |
| 1904 | under 5 | 18 | #530 | |
| 1903 | under 5 | 26 | #390 | |
| 1902 | under 5 | 23 | #433 | |
| 1901 | under 5 | 16 | #500 | |
| 1900 | under 5 | 31 | #410 | |
| 1899 | under 5 | 30 | #329 | |
| 1898 | under 5 | 28 | #372 | |
| 1897 | under 5 | 29 | #349 | |
| 1896 | under 5 | 25 | #394 | |
| 1895 | under 5 | 26 | #378 | |
| 1894 | under 5 | 32 | #314 | |
| 1893 | under 5 | 22 | #388 | |
| 1892 | under 5 | 21 | #418 | |
| 1891 | under 5 | 19 | #405 | |
| 1890 | under 5 | 23 | #375 | |
| 1889 | under 5 | 24 | #365 | |
| 1888 | under 5 | 21 | #411 | |
| 1887 | under 5 | 17 | #418 | |
| 1886 | under 5 | 32 | #306 | |
| 1885 | under 5 | 26 | #338 | |
| 1884 | under 5 | 33 | #304 | |
| 1883 | under 5 | 19 | #409 | |
| 1882 | under 5 | 24 | #369 | |
| 1881 | under 5 | 23 | #346 | |
| 1880 | under 5 | 33 | #288 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Morgan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 269,269 Americans recorded as Morgan, 83% are girls and 17% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Morgan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Morgan, and how old are they?
258,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 269,269 Americans ever recorded as Morgan. The median Morgan alive today is 27 years old; half are between 20 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 235,724 people named Morgan (201,351 women and girls, 34,373 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 249,831 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 413 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,580 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7,440 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 95,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 123,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 29,600 |
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 Morgan born?
The states with the most babies named Morgan are Texas, California and New York, with 25% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 143 | #359 | 0.8× |
| California | 136 | #387 | 0.6× |
| New York | 83 | #308 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 71 | #380 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 56 | #260 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 54 | #275 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 51 | #340 | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 50 | #270 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 48 | #342 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 45 | #351 | 0.9× |
Where Morgan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Morgan is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1910 it was given 1.3 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 Morgan 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 275,958 babies since 1880, Morgan is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,509 of their 1,583 babies (95%), again the most given.
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.
More about Morgan and names like it
- Compare Morgan and MorgenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMorgan peaked in 1995.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Morgan since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Morgan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Morgan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.