How popular is the name Meaghan?

Meaghan ranks 1,145th among girls' names in US records, with 14,188 births since 1955. Over the past decade it accounts for 199.

Is Meaghan a unisex name?

No. Meaghan is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1986, when 754 children were given the name. It has been in use for 66 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#1,145 of girl names

Pronounced M IY1 AE1 G HH AA1 N (ARPABET)

Meaghan is a girls' name, and first appears in 1955. It has been given to 14,188 children — the 1,145th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 199 births across the past decade, against a peak of 754 in a single year. That peak was in 1986.

1986Girls: 754Boys: 0

Phonetic detail

Pronunciations:: M IY1 AE1 G HH AA1 N · M IY1 AE1 G HH AE1 N · M IY1 EY1 G IY1 HH AA1 N · M IY1 EY1 G IY1 HH AE1 N
Stress pattern:: 111 · 111 · 1111 · 1111
Syllables:: 4

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Meaghan?: Meaghan ranks 1,145th among girls' names in US records, with 14,188 births since 1955. Over the past decade it accounts for 199.
Is Meaghan a unisex name?: No. Meaghan is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Meaghan most popular?: 1986, when 754 children were given the name. It has been in use for 66 years and is still recorded as of 2024.