Môrgan
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Môrgan is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 63rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Old Welsh Morcant, possibly from mor (“sea”) (Welsh môr) or maur (“great”) (Welsh mawr) + cant (“circle”) (Welsh cant), meaning “great chief” or “sea chief”.
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 344(measured from records)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 630
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 720
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #293 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 616 (measured from records)
- 1 in 344 (inferred from the name graph)
286,280 people, 2010
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Morgan in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 more.
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)- Old WelshMorcant(measured from records)
- Old Welsh rootmor“sea”(measured from records)
From Old Welsh Morcant, possibly from mor (“sea”) (Welsh môr) or maur (“great”) (Welsh mawr) + cant (“circle”) (Welsh cant), meaning “great chief” or “sea chief”.
Cited for this meaning 14
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Irish first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Môrgan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #63 | 286,280 | 1 in 1.2K | 286K | Morgan | 616 |
| GB United Kingdom | #43 | ≈97,000 est. | ≈1 in 716 | listed | Morgan | 357 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Morgan | 73 |
| CA Canada | #70 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 9 | Morgan | 259 |
| AU Australia | #65 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 908 | 1 | Morgan | 269 |
| NZ New Zealand | #63 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 936 | — | Morgan | 160 |
| JM Jamaica | #21 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 631 | — | Morgan | 54 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 295 | 1 in 344 | 295 | — | 6 |
286,280 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Môrgan mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Welsh Morcant, possibly from mor (“sea”) (Welsh môr) or maur (“great”) (Welsh mawr) + cant (“circle”) (Welsh cant), meaning “great chief” or “sea chief”. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 12 other sources.
- Is Môrgan a male or female name?
- Môrgan is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Môrgan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 286 thousand people named Môrgan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled morgan.
- Where is Môrgan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Môrgan is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 344 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Môrgan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 286,280 people named Môrgan in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Môrgan compared with other names?
- In the United States, Môrgan is the 63rd most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%B4rganThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Môrgan” — the 63rd most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.