Given name
Megumi
Megumi is a feminine given name from Japanese. It is used in English, French, and Tagalog.
Original Japanese愛
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1973. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Megumi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 587
- 0 boys · 587 girls
- Most popular year
- 1991
- 25 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #12,734 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −29%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 12,734 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 25 in 1991. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,774 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.
Megumi’s family of names
In English usage, Megumi was borrowed from the Japanese form めぐみ. In Japanese usage, Megumi is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 恵み. In Japanese usage, Megumi is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 恵海.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 5
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Megumi
- Megumi KamionobeJapanese association football playerborn 1986
- Megumi TakaseJapanese association football playerborn 1990
- Megumi TorigoeJapanese association football player
- Megumi SakataJapanese association football playerborn 1971
- Megumi HayashibaraJapanese voice actress, singer and actressborn 1967
- Megumi OgataJapanese voice actressborn 1965
- Megumi IgarashiJapanese sculptor, manga artist, Sex-positive feminist (born 1972)
- Megumi YokotaKidnapped Japanese child (1964-)
- Megumi HanJapanese actress and voice actressborn 1989
Characters named Megumi: Takani Megumi (Rurouni Kenshin).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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