first name
MAEGAN
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 8,232 people named Maegan, 79.2% reported their origin as White, 6.8% as Hispanic or Latino and 5.4% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Maegan peaked in 1991, when 431 babies got the name.
At least 9,171 babies have been given the name since 1970. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Maegan by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,157. The largest share of babies named Maegan, 57.6%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Maegan is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Maegan has been most common in Texas (2.4×), Alabama (2.4×), and Oklahoma (2.3×), and least common in New Jersey (0.15×).
7,036 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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