Entry № 7000 · Irish origin

Morrigan Morrigan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MOR-ih-gan /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Great queen, phantom queen"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Irish)

A name that means "great queen, phantom queen".

Morrigan (An Mórrígan) is the Irish goddess of war, fate, and sovereignty — a shape-shifter who often appears as a crow or raven.

Morrigan is rising slowly as a girls' name — chosen by parents drawn to dark Celtic mythological weight.

Great queen, phantom queen — a Irish name.

The name in its native script.

An Mórrígan
Transliteration
An Mórrígan
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɔːr.ɪ.ɡən /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Morrigan stands.

Morrigan 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.

Morrigans before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Morrigan
Irish war goddess of myth.
Irish mythology

Names connected to Morrigan.

The number behind Morrigan.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Morrigan reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.