Mégane
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mégane is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Welsh form of Marguerite, from Latin Margarita meaning “pearl”.
- FRFrance≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 18K
- GPGuadeloupe≈1 in 5.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 174 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guadeloupe, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Megane in CM Cameroon.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Welsh form of Marguerite, from Latin Margarita meaning “pearl”.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mégane counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 12K | Mégane | 174 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 5 | Mégane | 32 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Megane | 8 |
| ES Spain | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Mégane | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Mégane | 28 |
| MU Mauritius | #123 | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Mégane | 7 |
| GP Guadeloupe | — | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | 5 | — | 4 |
| GF French Guiana | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 5 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 6 | 1 in 1.7M | 6 | — | 4 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 973 (French Guiana); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mégane is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, French form of Megan, Welsh diminutive of Margaret
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, a female given name, equivalent to English Megan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mégane Valletb. 1989FRFrench handball player
- Mégane Sucb. 1990FRFrench volleyball player
- Mégane Androuetb. 1993FRFrench association football player
- Mégane Simonsb. 1994BEBelgian field hockey player
- Mégane Guézilleb. 1996FRFrench association football player
- Mégane Djeaidb. 2000CHSwiss association football player
- Mégane Pageb. 2002CHSwiss association football player
- Mégane Hoeltzelb. 2003FRFrench association football player
- Megane LebelCAsinger and songwriter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 2.1K | #3,063 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1995 | 183 | #48 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1996 | 146 | #68 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1997 | 89 | #132 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2000 | 83 | #135 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1999 | 83 | #135 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1998 | 76 | #152 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2001 | 69 | #147 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2002 | 50 | #192 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2003 | 31 | #304 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2004 | 26 | #363 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2005 | 18 | #505 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mégane mean, and where does it come from?
- Welsh form of Marguerite, from Latin Margarita meaning “pearl”. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Mégane a male or female name?
- Mégane is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Mégane have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.5 thousand people named Mégane in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mégane.
- How common is the name Mégane?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 6 people named Mégane, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
- How common is Mégane compared with other names?
- In Mauritius, Mégane is the 123rd most common given name of 365 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A9ganeThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mégane” — the 123rd most common given name in Mauritius. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.