Meghan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name from Welsh, a pseudo-Irish spelling of the Welsh Megan
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɛɡən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Meghan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 65K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 738as Megan
- USUnited States1 in 811as Megan
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Meghan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #379 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 621 (measured from records)
- 1 in 65K (inferred from the name graph)
≈410,000 named Megan, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Megan 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)
A female given name from Welsh, a pseudo-Irish spelling of the Welsh Megan.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Meghan 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 | — | ≈410,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Megan | 51 |
| US United States | #157 | 409,941as Megan | 1 in 811 | 409K | Megan | 621 |
| GB United Kingdom | #224 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 8 | Megan | 332 |
| AU Australia | #104 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 738 | 78 | Megan | 295 |
| CA Canada | #182 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 6 | Megan | 308 |
| NZ New Zealand | #166 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 12 | Megan | 176 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 266 | 1 in 65K | 2.8K | Megan | 111 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). 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)
Meghan 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.
Recent variant spelling of Megan.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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)
- Megan Mullallyb. 1958USAmerican actress
- Megan Doddsb. 1970USAmerican actress
- Meghan Markleb. 1981USmember of the British royal family and Duchess of Sussex since 2018
- Meghan Oryb. 1982CACanadian actress
- Megan Booneb. 1983USAmerican actress
- Megan Rapinoeb. 1985USAmerican soccer player (born 1985)
- Megan Foxb. 1986USAmerican actress and model (born 1986)
- Megan Parkb. 1986CACanadian actress
- Meghan Trainorb. 1993USAmerican singer-songwriter (born 1993)
- Megan Charpentierb. 2001CAAmerican-Canadian actress
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 60 sources across 38 countries.
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 are other forms of the name Meghan?
- In the etymology graph, Rita, Margarita and Megan are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Meghan?
- A machine transcription gives /mɛɡən/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Meghan?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 266 people named Meghan, about 1 in 65 thousand residents.
- How common is Meghan compared with other names?
- In Australia, Meghan is the 104th most common given name of 205,854 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Meghan mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name from Welsh, a pseudo-Irish spelling of the Welsh Megan. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Meghan a male or female name?
- Meghan 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 Meghan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 414 thousand people named Megan in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Meghan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Meghan is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 65 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Meghan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meghanThe 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, “Meghan” — the 104th most common given name in Australia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.