How Many People Are Named Meg?
people named Meg are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 69,980 people in the US has this name
Based on 5,321 babies named Meg in Social Security records from 1941 to 2022, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
196 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Medieval diminutive of MARGARET.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Meg in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Meg alive today is about 45 years old, and 36% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 27 and 62 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Meg first appears in the records in 1941 and was given most often in 1959, to 196 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2022.
Babies given the name each year, 1941 to 2022
🏆 Rank History
Meg has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #715, in 1959.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #715 (1959) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #909 in the 1960s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Meg alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Meg were born in New York than in any other state: about 369 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Meg was given 6.9 times as often in Utah, 2.2 times in New York and 2.2 times in Pennsylvania.
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