Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1955. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Meaghan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 14,043
- 7 boys · 14,036 girls
- Most popular year
- 1986
- 744 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −100%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 13 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 744 in 1986. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 13,115 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.
Meaghan’s family of names
Meaghan has a related form in Megan. In English usage, Meaghan has a related form in Meghan. In English usage, Meaghan has a conventional equivalent in the French form Mégane.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Meaghan
- Meaghan MartinAmerican musician and actorborn 1992
- Meaghan RathCanadian actressborn 1986
- Meaghan BenfeitoCanadian diverborn 1989
- Meaghan MikkelsonCanadian ice hockey playerborn 1985
- Meaghan SmithCanadian singer-songwriterborn 1978
- Meaghan KallUS-UK epidemiologist
- Meaghan OppenheimerAmerican screenwriterborn 1986
- Meaghan Simisterlugerborn 1986
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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