Meg
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #13,592
- Peak · girls
- 1959 · 196 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,321since 1941
Meg over time
Rank among girls' names. Meg has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 |
| 2021 | #7,250 | 15 |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 |
| 2018 | #6,521 | 18 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 |
| 2016 | #6,401 | 19 |
| 2015 | #6,236 | 20 |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 |
| 2013 | #5,486 | 24 |
| 2012 | #5,114 | 27 |
| 2011 | #4,681 | 30 |
| 2010 | #3,159 | 52 |
| 2009 | #3,298 | 50 |
| 2008 | #3,158 | 53 |
| 2007 | #2,822 | 64 |
| 2006 | #2,728 | 65 |
| 2005 | #1,924 | 100 |
| 2004 | #2,067 | 88 |
| 2003 | #1,509 | 129 |
| 2002 | #1,683 | 109 |
| 2001 | #1,641 | 111 |
| 2000 | #1,617 | 109 |
| 1999 | #1,667 | 99 |
| 1998 | #1,721 | 92 |
| 1997 | #1,718 | 90 |
| 1996 | #1,551 | 102 |
| 1995 | #1,482 | 107 |
| 1994 | #1,770 | 82 |
| 1993 | #2,176 | 61 |
| 1992 | #1,818 | 79 |
| 1991 | #2,320 | 55 |
| 1990 | #1,813 | 79 |
| 1989 | #2,304 | 51 |
| 1988 | #2,187 | 52 |
| 1987 | #2,972 | 32 |
| 1986 | #4,724 | 16 |
| 1985 | #2,601 | 37 |
| 1984 | #2,730 | 33 |
| 1983 | #2,659 | 33 |
| 1982 | #2,704 | 34 |
| 1981 | #2,085 | 49 |
| 1980 | #2,014 | 52 |
| 1979 | #1,623 | 69 |
| 1978 | #2,431 | 36 |
| 1977 | #2,216 | 41 |
| 1976 | #1,996 | 44 |
| 1975 | #1,571 | 63 |
| 1974 | #1,268 | 85 |
| 1973 | #1,527 | 61 |
| 1972 | #1,169 | 92 |
| 1971 | #1,336 | 80 |
| 1970 | #1,263 | 87 |
| 1969 | #1,129 | 96 |
| 1968 | #1,190 | 83 |
| 1967 | #1,182 | 81 |
| 1966 | #991 | 106 |
| 1965 | #922 | 120 |
| 1964 | #826 | 161 |
| 1963 | #773 | 179 |
| 1962 | #766 | 184 |
| 1961 | #858 | 154 |
| 1960 | #761 | 179 |
| 1959 | #714 | 196 |
| 1958 | #922 | 125 |
| 1957 | #897 | 129 |
| 1956 | #963 | 110 |
| 1955 | #1,150 | 75 |
| 1954 | #1,333 | 56 |
| 1953 | #1,332 | 53 |
| 1952 | #1,420 | 47 |
| 1951 | #1,481 | 40 |
| 1950 | #1,871 | 26 |
| 1949 | #2,134 | 21 |
| 1948 | #2,491 | 16 |
| 1947 | #2,637 | 15 |
| 1946 | #3,665 | 8 |
| 1945 | #2,598 | 12 |
| 1944 | #2,762 | 11 |
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| 1942 | #3,194 | 9 |
| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Meg! It came in at #4,420, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1943, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Meg is popular in 1970
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Connecticut#390 · 1 in 2,967
- Wisconsin#436 · 1 in 4,812
- Massachusetts#606 · 1 in 8,450
- Pennsylvania#626 · 1 in 7,813
- Illinois#809 · 1 in 9,749
Best ever in a state: #278 in Connecticut, 1962.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | #390 | 7 | 1 in 2,967 |
| Wisconsin | #436 | 7 | 1 in 4,812 |
| Massachusetts | #606 | 5 | 1 in 8,450 |
| Pennsylvania | #626 | 11 | 1 in 7,813 |
| Illinois | #809 | 9 | 1 in 9,749 |
| Ohio | #840 | 7 | 1 in 12,737 |
| New York | #1,034 | 10 | 1 in 14,140 |
| California | #1,711 | 6 | 1 in 27,338 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Meg
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2022
- Biggest jump: 208 spots in 1959 (#922 → #714)
- Biggest drop: 191 spots in 1967 (#991 → #1,182)
- Debuted 1941
- Peaked 1959 at #714 (196 births)
- Births halved by 1967, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 1956–1966
- Highest: 1 in 10,324 girls born in 1959 were named Meg (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 273,355 girls born in 2022 (0.00%)
- 25.2% of all girls named Meg (1,343) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 97 | #2,134 (1949) | #2,988 |
| 1950s | 857 | #714 (1959) | #1,208 |
| 1960s | 1,343 | #761 (1960) | #940 |
| 1970s | 658 | #1,169 (1972) | #1,640 |
| 1980s | 389 | #2,014 (1980) | #2,698 |
| 1990s | 846 | #1,482 (1995) | #1,804 |
| 2000s | 878 | #1,509 (2003) | #2,245 |
| 2010s | 221 | #3,159 (2010) | #6,810 |
| 2020s | 32 | #7,250 (2021) | #9,932 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Meg in 1970
Top girls' names in 1970
More about 1970
girls
1,748,144 girls got a published name in 1970; 1 in 20,094 of them was named Meg, which outranked 86.5% of the 9,355 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,259Crissy88
- #1,259Eden88
- #1,259Sadie88
- #1,263Meg87
- #1,263Alethea87
- #1,263Jeanene87
- #1,263Jenine87
- #1,270Alexa86
- #1,270Avis86
- #1,270Cornelia86
Tied with 6 names at #1,263; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.