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Meg

Medieval diminutive of Margaret.

Usage languagesEnglish
US rank (2022)#13,592

Meaning and history

Meg is a medieval diminutive of Margaret and is now also used as a short form of the related name Megan.

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20032003: no US SSA record for this spelling
2004: no US SSA record for this spelling
2005: no US SSA record for this spelling
2006: 65 births, rank #2,728
2007: 64 births, rank #2,822
20082008: 53 births, rank #3,158
2009: 50 births, rank #3,298
2010: 52 births, rank #3,159
2011: 30 births, rank #4,681
2012: 27 births, rank #5,114
20132013: 24 births, rank #5,486
2014: 14 births, rank #8,053
2015: 20 births, rank #6,236
2016: 19 births, rank #6,401
2017: 7 births, rank #12,713
20182018: 18 births, rank #6,521
2019: 10 births, rank #9,736
2020: 11 births, rank #8,953
2021: 15 births, rank #7,250
20222022: 6 births, rank #13,592

Meg moved from #930 to #995 for girls between 1965 and 1966. Its highest annual birth count came in 1959, with 196 births.