Meagan

Where Meagan comes from

The dictionaries list Meagan as a given name — a female given name from Welsh, a pseudo-Irish spelling of the Welsh Megan — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Welsh
Along the way
  1. 1954
    First appearance
    #5,148 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1981
    Meagan Good born
    American actress and producer
  3. 1985
    Meagan Duhamel born
    Canadian pair skater
  4. 1989
    Peak, #120
    2,464 babies named Meagan — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1998
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #263.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Welsh, a pseudo-Irish spelling of the Welsh Megan.
Namesakes
  • Meagan Good · American actress and producer, born 1981
  • Meagan Duhamel · Canadian pair skater, born 1985
  • Meagan Tandy · American actress and model, born 1985
  • Meagan Holder · actress, born 1984
  • Meagan Chauke · South African activist, born 1992

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.