Meagen vs Meaghan
American parents have registered 14,043 Meaghans since 1880, against 1,182 Meagens. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Meagen Meaghan
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Meaghan has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1955 to 2020. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 1976, when Meagen had 19 and Meaghan had 88.
Side by side
| Meagen | Meaghan | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,182 | 14,043 |
| Most in one year | 92 | 744 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 1,100 | 14,000 |
| Median age today | 37 | 35 |
| Peak year | 1985 | 1986 |
| Best rank | 1,395th girls | 325th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1970 | 1955 |
| Girls / boys | 1,182 / 0 | 14,036 / 7 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Meagens alive today are over 37; half the Meaghans are over 35. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Meagen Texas (5.3×), Florida (2.7×), California (1.9×)
- Meaghan Massachusetts (6.7×), New Hampshire (5.6×), Rhode Island (4.8×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Meagen and Meaghan.