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Meggan vs Meghaan

American parents have registered 2,927 Meggans since 1880, against 36 Meghaans. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Meggan against Meghaan, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Meggan Meghaan

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

Meggan has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1957 to 2013. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1984, when Meggan had 156 and Meghaan had 36.

Side by side

  Meggan Meghaan
Total US births 2,92736
Most in one year 18536
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 2,80040
Median age today 4141
Peak year 19851984
Best rank 863rd girls2,574th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19571984
Girls / boys 2,927 / 036 / 0

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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Meggan and Meghaan.