Girl
Meghan
Meghan means "Welsh diminutive of Margaret" and comes from Welsh, giving it real etymological depth as a girl's name. It has not kept pace since its 1980s peak. In the current registry, it is a name plenty of people share. Across the twelve decades this registry covers, it appears in 7 of them.
WelshWelsh diminutive of Margaret
EtymologyMeaning "pearl"
Also spelled: Megan
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
0
1940s
0
1950s
102
1960s
958
1970s
9,400
1980s
36,353
1990s
31,524
2000s
14,098
2010s
2,240
Peaked in the 1980s · 94,675 total U.S. births since 1900