Morgan

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Morgan boys named Morgan

Girls and boys called Morgan

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Morgan crossed from boys to girls in 1980, and has stayed there for 46 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 92% girls, and in 2025 it was 65%.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 132 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births

269,269

Estimated living today

258,000

Median age today

26

Peak year

1995

Best rank

23rd

Rank in 2025

312th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

223,626 / 45,643

How old the living Morgans are

born that year still alive today

Of the 269,269 babies given the name since 1880, about 258,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 53,000 of them are children and 2,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1999 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

from Old Welsh Morcant, possibly from *mor (“sea”) (Welsh môr) or *mọr (“great”) (owl maur) + *kantos (“circle”) (Welsh cant), meaning “great chief” or “sea chief”.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Morgans

• Morgan Freeman (born 1937)American actor and producer
• Morgan Tsvangirai (1952–2018)former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
• Morgan De Sanctis (born 1977)Italian association football player
• Morgan Schneiderlin (born 1989)French footballer
• Morgan Rogers (born 2002)English association football player
• Morgan Fairchild (born 1950)American actress
• Morgan Gibbs-White (born 2000)English association football player
• Morgan Spurlock (1970–2024)American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer

People named Morgan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Morgan is most common

• CA19,946
• TX18,860
• OH13,543
• PA12,599
• NY11,904
• FL11,255
• IL10,617
• GA10,254
• MI10,043
• NC9,234

Relative to how many babies each state records, Morgan is most concentrated in Utah (1.8×), Delaware (1.7×), Alaska (1.6×), Idaho (1.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1995

The most popular girls’ names the year Morgan peaked:

• Jessica
• Ashley
• Emily
• Samantha
• Sarah
• Taylor

All the names of 1995

Morgan elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Morgan: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Morgan is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.03% of children were given it – 57 of them.

Morgan: rank by region

In 2020, Morgan was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Morgan among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Morgan lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 197 men called Morgan were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 10 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 42 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Morris
• Moriah
• Morton
• Mordechai
• Morgen
• Morrison
• Mortimer
• Mordecai
• Morghan
• Morganne
• Morrigan
• Mora

Morgan against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Morgan vs Morris
• Morgan vs Moriah
• Morgan vs Morton
• Morgan vs Mordechai
• Morgan vs Morgen
• Morgan vs Morrison

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