Meg

Where Meg comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Meg.

  • 1 syllable
Meg through the years
  1. 1941
    First appearance
    #4,420 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1956
    Meg Whitman born
    American business executive
  3. 1959
    Peak, #714
    196 babies named Meg, the most in any year.
  4. 1960
    Meg Tilly born
    American-Canadian actress
  5. 1967
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,182.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given names Margaret and Megan.
Namesakes
  • Meg Whitman · American business executive, born 1956
  • Meg Tilly · American-Canadian actress, born 1960
  • Meg Cabot · American novelist and writer, born 1967
  • Meg White · American drummer, born 1974
  • Meg Foster · American actress, born 1948

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.