Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Meighan 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 1965. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Meighan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 564
- 0 boys · 564 girls
- Most popular year
- 1988
- 43 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 2003. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 43 in 1988. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 596 as a first name in 2020; 1,100 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Meighan’s family of names
Meighan has a related form in Megan. In English usage, Meighan has a related form in Meghan.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Meighan
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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