How popular is the name Meg?

Meg ranks 2,025th among girls' names in US records, with 5,321 births since 1941. Over the past decade it accounts for 144.

Is Meg a unisex name?

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

1959, when 196 children were given the name. It has been in use for 82 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#2,025 of girl names

Pronounced M EH1 G (ARPABET)

Meg is a girls' name, and first appears in 1941. It has been given to 5,321 children — the 2,025th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 144 births across the past decade, against a peak of 196 in a single year. That peak was in 1959.

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Meg is itself a short form of Margaret.

Phonetic detail

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 Meg?: Meg ranks 2,025th among girls' names in US records, with 5,321 births since 1941. Over the past decade it accounts for 144.
Is Meg a unisex name?: No. Meg is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Meg most popular?: 1959, when 196 children were given the name. It has been in use for 82 years and is still recorded as of 2024.