Meghna
Feminine · “cloud”
The Meghna is one of the great rivers of the world. Three enormous rivers meet in Bangladesh — the Ganges, the Brahmaputra and the Meghna — and the combined flow is the largest delta on earth. The river's name comes from the Sanskrit word for a cloud, which is exactly right for water that arrives from the sky in quantities no other place quite manages.
How old is the name Meghna?
Meghna first appears in US birth records in 1986 — 39 years ago. The typical Meghna alive today was born around 2005, making them about 20 years old. About 700 people named Meghna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Meghna most popular?
Meghna peaked in 2002, reaching #3283 nationally. Today it ranks #13208, 9,925 places below that high. See the whole 2002 chart.
Where it comes from
From megha to Meghna
The story of Meghna
Sanskrit words for weather and water are used freely in Indian naming, and the cloud carries a particular affection in a climate where the year turns on the monsoon's arrival. The Meghna river gave the word a second life as a proper name, and Meghna is used across Bengal and northern India. American records carry it from the mid-1980s with Indian migration. It is one of the names that survives the journey into English spelling almost intact, since every sound in it exists here.
Meaning
cloud
From the Sanskrit megha, a cloud, with a feminine ending. Megha is a word with real weight in Indian poetry — one of the most famous Sanskrit poems is a message sent by a cloud — and the monsoon makes it a word about relief and abundance rather than about gloom.
How the name formed
- megha
- Meghna
Related forms: Megha · Meghna · Meghna
Pronouncing Meghna
MEG-nah
Two syllables, stress on the first. The gh in Indian languages is a breathy g rather than a silent letter — genuinely different from the English gh, which does nothing. English speakers say a plain g and are understood.
Nicknames for Meghna
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
- 1986
- Most girls named
- 200242 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3283reached in 2002
- Change vs 2023
- −14.3%6 in 2025, from 7
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.
Meghna in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Megha in Sanskrit — related form
- Meghna in Bengali — same name
- Meghna in Hindi — same name
Meghnas among us
people named Meghna are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 267,878 born in 2025 was named Meghna
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Ameenah test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Meghna's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Ameenah climbed just as high around 1978, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Ameenah's path sketches the road Meghna is walking now.
Meghna sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Meghna beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Meghna in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Meg is available and needs no explanation in any English-speaking country.
- The meaning is one word and, in a monsoon climate, an entirely welcome one.
- Six letters, two syllables, and no sound English cannot approximate.
- It names one of the largest rivers on earth, which is a good thing to be able to say.
- The breathy gh is lost in American speech, which flattens the name slightly.
- Meghana and Megna both appear in English writing, so the spelling has to be given.
- English readers may take the gh as silent, on the model of night and light.
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Frequently asked
- How many Meghnas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Meghna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Meghna in 2025?
- Meghna ranks #13208 among US girl names in 2025, with 6 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Meghna?
- About 1 in every 267,878 US girls born in 2025 was named Meghna — 6 in all.
- Will my child share the name Meghna with classmates?
- Meghna will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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