Meghann
Feminine · “pearl”
Meghann carries two added letters and neither is heard. Welsh, the language the name comes from, has no gh at all and no doubled n in this position; both were added on the way through English, and the name is said exactly as it was before they arrived.
How old is the name Meghann?
Meghann first appears in US birth records in 1977 — 48 years ago. The typical Meghann alive today was born around 1985, making them about 40 years old. About 3,700 people named Meghann are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Meghann most popular?
Meghann peaked in 1979, reaching #517 nationally. See the whole 1979 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Marged to Meghann
The story of Meghann
Welsh spelling is famously regular, and it does not use gh: the sound English writes that way does not exist in the language, and where Welsh needs a rasp it writes ch. So the h in this name is an English visitor. It probably arrived by analogy with Irish spellings, where h after a consonant does real work, and once it was in place American families added the second n as well, on the general principle that a longer spelling looks more like a name. Between the plain Welsh form and this one sit Meghan, Megann and Meaghan, and the sound has not moved a step through any of them.
Meaning
pearl
The name descends from Margaret through Welsh, and carries the pearl through unchanged. Nothing in the added letters affects the sense.
How the name formed
- Marged
- Megan
- Meghann
Related forms: Megan · Marged · Mairead
Pronouncing Meghann
MEG-un
Two syllables, weight at the front, the first with the vowel of leg. Welsh says it the same way, and the extra letters change nothing.
Nicknames for Meghann
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1977
- Most girls named
- 1979374 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #517reached in 1979
- Change vs 2011
- +40.0%7 in 2012, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Meghann in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Megan in Welsh — same name
- Marged in Welsh — related form
- Mairead in Irish — related form
Meghanns among us
people named Meghann are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Meghann sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Said aloud it is completely familiar and needs no explanation.
- Meg is one of the most established short forms in English.
- The name behind it is genuinely Welsh, with a documented line back to Margaret.
- Megan, Meghan, Meagan and Meghann are four live spellings and all of them will be tried.
- Welsh speakers will point out that neither added letter belongs.
- Both extra letters are silent, so the spelling has to be given out loud every time.
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Frequently asked
- How many Meghanns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,700 people named Meghann are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Meghann in 2025?
- Meghann is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Meghann will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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