Maegan

Last seen for girls in 2023 at #12,197

Peak · girls
1987 · 420 births
Debut · girls
8 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
9,171
since 1970

Maegan over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Maegan has never cracked the top 500 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201998peak #505, 1987girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025
2024
2023#12,1977
2022#15,3065
2021#11,1468
2020#13,4536
2019#6,41418
2018#8,61712
2017#11,6158
2016#8,39313
2015#4,85328
2014#3,71941
2013#3,40446
2012#2,93558
2011#2,79662
2010#2,31382
2009#2,16592
2008#2,020103
2007#1,381175
2006#1,331175
2005#1,437148
2004#1,168193
2003#1,025225
2002#905248
2001#879261
2000#774295
1999#738304
1998#646357
1997#660333
1996#725289
1995#678314
1994#587387
1993#616371
1992#642351
1991#546431
1990#576402
1989#537426
1988#523421
1987#505420
1986#525391
1985#519387
1984#684245
1983#823186
1982#1,045138
1981#1,128122
1980#1,077131
1979#1,104123
1978#1,231101
1977#1,29590
1976#2,09941
1975#1,80751
1974#3,21221
1973#5,5809
1972#6,5587
1971#8,3245
1970#5,8188
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First appearance
1970

The first year at least five girls were named Maegan! It came in at #5,818, and was given to 8 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2024–2025, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Maegan
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
  • Biggest jump: 222 spots in 1983 (#1,045#823)
  • Biggest drop: 120 spots in 2003 (#905#1,025)
Rise & fade · girls
17 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1970
  • Peaked 1987 at #505 (420 births)
  • Births halved by 2004, 17 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 20 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 1983–2002
Share of babies · girls
1 in 4,140
  • Highest: 1 in 4,140 girls born in 1987 were named Maegan (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 229,226 girls born in 2023 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 38.6% of all girls named Maegan (3,539) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s456#1,104 (1979)#3,703
1980s2,867#505 (1987)#737
1990s3,539#546 (1991)#641
2000s1,915#774 (2000)#1,309
2010s368#2,313 (2010)#5,506
2020s26#11,146 (2021)#13,026

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Maegan in 1998

girls
#646
357 births · 1 in 4,949 girls

Top girls' names in 1998

  1. #1Emily26,188
  2. #2Hannah21,376
  3. #3Samantha20,195
  4. #4Sarah19,898
  5. #5Ashley19,875
  6. #6Alexis19,778
  7. #7Taylor18,576
  8. #8Jessica18,239
  9. #9Madison17,787
  10. #10Elizabeth15,193
  11. #646Maegan357
More about 1998

girls

1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 4,949 of them was named Maegan, which outranked 96.1% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Maegan
  1. #641Nikita359
  2. #644Beatriz358
  3. #644Diane358
  4. #646Maegan357
  5. #646Cortney357
  6. #646Kacey357
  7. #649Carli355
  8. #649Chelsie355
  9. #649Kailyn355

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1997
Risers
  1. 2,123Calista#2,820#697
  2. 1,165Ireland#1,983#818
  3. 1,158Abril#2,116#958
  4. 755Mya#993#238
  5. 619Ally#1,036#417
Fallers
  1. 586Yulissa#424#1,010
  2. 462Moesha#943#1,405
  3. 397Yulisa#985#1,382
  4. 376Tonya#905#1,281
  5. 347Xena#765#1,112

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1998