Maegan
- Pronunciation
- [Mae-gan]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Not recorded
- Origin
- English
Maegan is a name traditionally given to a girl of English origin. Our sources do not preserve a single agreed-upon literal translation for this particular name, so we list its meaning as unrecorded rather than guess at one. Browse more English baby names or search the full library by meaning.
About the Name Maegan
Maegan is one of the many creative respellings of Megan, the Welsh pet form of Margaret, which itself traces back through the Greek margaron to the meaning "pearl." Where the standard spelling keeps things plain, this version inserts an ae that gently nods to the "may" sound at the start of the name, giving it a softer, more ornamental look on the page while preserving the familiar two-syllable rhythm and pronunciation entirely.
The name belongs to a tight cluster of related forms that flourished as parents personalized a hugely popular sound. Recorded variants include Meagan and Meghan, each a different attempt to capture the same pronunciation in writing, with the latter especially well known. The result is a name that feels instantly recognizable by ear yet visually distinct, very much in the spirit of turn-of-the-millennium naming, when small spelling choices were a favored way to make a common name one's own.
In the United States, Maegan first entered the Social Security top-1000 in 2000 and appeared on the list only through 2002, debuting at its best rank of #777. It slipped to #906 by 2002, its last charted year, accounting for roughly 804 births in that short window. The brevity of its run marks Maegan as a fleeting variant-spelling of a classic — a name that caught a particular moment rather than a whole generation, and a distinctive find today.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Maegan
US Popularity History (2000–2002)
Annual US births named Maegan by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2000 with 295 girls named Maegan (girl rank #777 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2002, ranked #906 for girls (248 US births). That's 129 places below its 2000 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Maegan Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2002–2011 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Maegan the strongest states are Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mississippi | #559 | 22 |
| 2 | Louisiana | #639 | 24 |
| 3 | Alabama | #676 | 40 |
| 4 | Utah | #680 | 17 |
| 5 | Massachusetts | #765 | 33 |
| 6 | Tennessee | #766 | 23 |
| 7 | Oklahoma | #774 | 15 |
| 8 | Florida | #774 | 55 |
| 9 | Michigan | #794 | 29 |
| 10 | Texas | #811 | 99 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2002–2011. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Maegan in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
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Compare Maegan to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Maegan against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).