Meg
Meg is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 715th, in 1959.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1959196 births
- Best rank
- #715in 1959
- Since 1941
- 5,321people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,321 girls have been named Meg in the United States since 1941, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 196 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 196 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1974, and the 1960s alone account for 25%. It has spent 11 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1959, its biggest year
Meg was the 715th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1959 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Donna. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Meg
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Janipeak 1960
- Karlapeak 1964
- Lezliepeak 1962
- Lourdespeak 1963
- Synthiapeak 1965
- Risapeak 1962
- Maurapeak 1964
- Sindypeak 1979
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.