Given name

Maygan

Maygan is a feminine given name.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Maygan is a form of Megan. Megan comes from Welsh.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Maygan through the years

Babies since 1880
612
0 boys · 612 girls
Most popular year
1997
34 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
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Maygan in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1976–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 34 in 1997. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 558 as a first name in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Maygan’s family of names

Maygan has a related form in Megan.

Walk Maygan’s family in the name graph

MayganMaiganMeganMaygann

Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 2

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

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Sibling ideas

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