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Meg

  • Gender Girl
  • Syllables 1
  • Letters 3
  • Births on record 6,757

Northern Ireland

#409

2003 births

Meg is a girl's name with 1 syllable. In 2022 it was given to 6 babies in the United States. It was given to fewer than five babies in the most recent year of published US data.

  • Peaked in 1959, when 196 babies were given the name.
  • It has been falling over the past decade.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1941.
  • 1 syllable, with the stress on syllable 1.

Meg over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1940s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2022, not a full ten years.

1,343
'40 '50 '60 '70 '80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Meg by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1940s 97
1950s 857
1960s 1,343
1970s 658
1980s 389
1990s 846
2000s 878
2010s 221
2020s (to 2022) 32

How popular is Meg?

In 2022, Meg was given to 6 babies in the United States. It was given to fewer than five babies in the most recent year of published US data.

Where Meg is used

Northern Ireland #409 3 in 2003
Scotland #983 3 in 2014
Ireland #1,063 3 in 2019
Canada #3,645 5 in 2014
England & Wales #4,543 5 in 2021
France #7,530 5 in 2017
United States #14,974 6 in 2022

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

Names that peaked alongside Meg

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

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Sibling names for Meg

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Meg — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Meg

How popular is the name Meg?

In 2022, Meg was given to 6 babies in the United States. It was given to fewer than five babies in the most recent year of published US data.

Is Meg a girl's or a boy's name?

Meg is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

How many syllables are in Meg?

Meg has 1 syllable.

When was Meg most popular?

Meg peaked in 1959, when 196 babies were given the name. It has been falling over the past decade.