Given name
Meggie
“pearl”
Meggie has more than one affectionate-name route, including Meg and Megan.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Meggie is a diminutive of Margaret. Margaret goes back to Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης, meaning “pearl.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
In English use, Meggie is an affectionate form of Margaret. Margaret has been associated with Greek and Hebrew naming traditions. The precise derivation is uncertain.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In English usage, Meggie is a diminutive of Margaret. In English usage, Meggie is a diminutive of Megan.
The story
The heroine of Colleen McCullough’s The Thorn Birds is called Meggie as a form of Megan. That Australian context differs from the older English use of Meggie as a pet form of Meg.
Meggie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 514
- 0 boys · 514 girls
- Most popular year
- 1985
- 47 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 47 in 1985. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 661 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.
Meggie’s family of names
In English usage, Meggie is a diminutive of Margaret. Meggie has a related form in Megan. Meggie is an affectionate form of Margaret.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Meggie
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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