Meggy
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A diminutive of the female given name Margaret
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mgi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Meggy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 100K(inferred from the name graph)
- GPGuadeloupe≈1 in 26K
- NLNetherlands1 in 108K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guadeloupe, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A diminutive of the female given name Margaret.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Meggy 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Meggy | 6 |
| FR France | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 100K | 875 | Meggy | 141 |
| DE Germany | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 311K | 1 | Meggy | 54 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Meggy | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | 160 | 1 in 108K | 160 | Meggy | 17 |
| AT Austria | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 159K | 10 | Meggy | 9 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Meggy | 7 |
| GP Guadeloupe | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 5 | — | 2 |
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); the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); 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)
Meggy is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hungarian, sour cherry
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)
- Meggy O. d'AlmeidaBJjournalist
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2012 | 875 | #3,311 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 160 | #4,140 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 151 | #6,382 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 10 | #1,301 |
| GP Guadeloupe | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe) | 1987 | 10 | #71 |
| GP Guadeloupe | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe) | 1986 | 10 | #71 |
| GP Guadeloupe | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe) | 1989 | 5 | #223 |
| GP Guadeloupe | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe) | 1988 | 5 | #206 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 2 | #1,685 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2015 | 1 | — |
| DE Germany | DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen (2007) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Meggy mean, and where does it come from?
- A diminutive of the female given name Margaret. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Meggy?
- A machine transcription gives /mgi/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Meggy a male or female name?
- Meggy 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.
- What are other forms of the name Meggy?
- In the etymology graph, Margaret, Rita and Margarita are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Meggy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Meggy in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled meggy.
- How common is the name Meggy?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 160 people named Meggy, about 1 in 108 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Meggy?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meggyThe 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, “Meggy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.