Meaghan

Where Meaghan comes from

The dictionaries list Meaghan 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. 1955
    First appearance
    #5,828 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1986
    Meaghan Rath born
    Canadian actress
  3. 1986
    Peak, #325
    744 babies named Meaghan — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1992
    Meaghan Jette Martin born
    American musician and actor
  5. 1999
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #644.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Welsh, a pseudo-Irish spelling of the Welsh Megan.
Namesakes
  • Meaghan Jette Martin · American musician and actor, born 1992
  • Meaghan Rath · Canadian actress, born 1986
  • Meaghan Benfeito · Canadian diver, born 1989
  • Meaghan Mikkelson Reid · Canadian ice hockey player, born 1985
  • Meaghan Smith · Canadian singer-songwriter, born 1978

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.