Entry № 6684 · Welsh origin

Megan Megan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MEH-gan /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Welsh
Meaning
"Pearl (Welsh form of Margaret; Megan Rapinoe, Meghan Markle)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Welsh)

A name that means "pearl (welsh form of margaret; megan rapinoe, meghan markle)".

Megan is the Welsh diminutive of Margaret — from the Greek margarites (pearl).

Pearl, in Welsh.

The name in its native script.

Megan
Transliteration
Megan
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɛɡ.ən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Megan stands.

Megan does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Megans before her.

Real people
Megan Rapinoe
American soccer World Cup champion.
born 1985
Meghan Markle
Duchess of Sussex.
born 1981
Megan Smith
Third US Chief Technology Officer.
born 1964
In fiction
Megan
Mad Men.
2007

Names connected to Megan.

The number behind Megan.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Megan reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.