Megan

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.

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Megan, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Jessica
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• Rachel
• Jennifer
• Katie

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Megan is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name18 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, France, Argentina, United Kingdom

  Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

  Also written Mégan, Mëgän, Megán, Mëgan, Megän

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Mēgan, Mégan

• Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Indonesia, Malaysia, United Kingdom

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Mégan, Mēgań

• Turkish given name8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Türkiye, Canada

  Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek

  Also written Mègan, Megån, Meğan, Męğąñ, Mégan

• English given name35 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, Thai, Spanish

  Also written Meaghan, Meghan, เมแกน, Magán, Méaghan

59 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Megan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• A variant of Margaret. Melaghlin [Maeleachlainn] (m) ‘servant of St Secundinus’. Melaghlin is the true English form of Maeleachlainn, but Malachy was commonly used to translate it, and at present it seems to have 85 Melanie completely replaced it. Miles was occasionally used as a translation.

  as a name·Irish first names

• 1. with the stress on the first syllable, this is an Anglicized form of Gaelic Meighan, which, according to MacLysaght, is usually a variant of Meehan or occasionally of Megahan. 2. with the stress on the second syllable, a variant of McGahan.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In English, A diminutive of the female given name Margaret, from Welsh.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Irish, Variant of Margaret.

  as a name·Irish first names

• In English, a pearl

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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.

• Megan Mullallyb. 1958USAmerican actress
• Megan Rapinoeb. 1985USAmerican soccer player (born 1985)
• Megan Foxb. 1986USAmerican actress and model (born 1986)

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).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

93 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 50 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

How do you pronounce Megan?

In English /ˈmeɪɡən/ (Wiktionary).

Which countries have the most people named Megan?

In the United States, the national register counted about 410 thousand people named Megan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled megan. After it come United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.

What does the name Megan mean, and where does it come from?

Margaret form with -an diminutive; no dated cite given. Recorded by Welsh Surnames.

What are other forms of the name Megan?

In the etymology graph, Rita, Margarita and Marguerite are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Meg.

How common is the name Megan?

In the United States, the national register counted 409,941 people named Megan in 2020, about 1 in 811 residents.

How common is Megan compared with other names?

In the United States, Megan is the 157th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

Is Megan a male or female name?

Megan is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Netherlands (Meertens NVB), France (INSEE, 2019) and Ecuador (INEC, 2024), among others.