Morgan
Morgan is ranked 276th among girls in 2024 (1,141 births). Its best rank was 22nd, in 1997.
- Rank in 2024
- #276down 29 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,1410.07% of girls
- Peak year
- 199510,877 births
- Best rank
- #22in 1997
- Since 1918
- 267,755people given the name
The story in the numbers
222,645 girls have been named Morgan in the United States since 1918, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1995, with 10,877 births — 0.62% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 102 → 276).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1999, and the 1990s alone account for 41%. It has spent 49 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 27 of them in the top 100.
Morgan is used for both sexes: 17% of its bearers are boys (45,110), most of them born around 1995.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Morgan | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | |
| 1930s | 5 | |
| 1940s | 22 | |
| 1950s | 116 | |
| 1960s | 354 | |
| 1970s | 1,569 | |
| 1980s | 24,288 | |
| 1990s | 91,196 | |
| 2000s | 70,746 | |
| 2010s | 27,635 | |
| 2020s | 6,709 |
In 1995, its biggest year
Morgan was the 23rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1995 were Jessica, Ashley, Emily, Samantha and Sarah. See all of 1995.
Names that rose and fell with Morgan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Asiapeak 1997
- Keannapeak 1995
- Priyankapeak 1998
- Hayleypeak 1993
- Keiannapeak 1999
- Kaylanpeak 1997
- Alexzandrapeak 1998
- Ambriapeak 2002
Other spellings in the data
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.