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Megan

feminine

91First-name usabilityHighly workable
Evidence coverageLimited

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Welsh (diminutive of Margaret)

Why it works

  • English speakers will almost certainly pronounce it correctly on the first try
  • spelling is short and predictable — rarely needs repeating

Popularity

Uncommon — #889 in the latest U.S. ranking.

Meaning and origin

Megan means Pearl (inherited from Margaret, ultimately from Greek μαργαρίτης, margarítēs, "pearl"), as Megan is a Welsh diminutive of Margaret.

Documented origin: Welsh (diminutive of Margaret)

Documented as a variant or related form of another name.

How it travels

English and Turkish are shown by default; German is included when it adds a meaningfully different reading.

EnglishWelsh /ˈmɛɡan/; English /ˈmɛɡən/ — Welsh and English (per Behind the Name)researched pronunciation
TurkishNo strong structural signal of Turkish/English divergence for this spelling.deterministic phonetic analysis
GermanNo strong structural signal of German/English divergence for this spelling.deterministic phonetic analysis

Spelling stability: high — based on letter-pattern analysis, not a documented linguistic fact.

Also documented

/ˈmɛɡan/

/ˈmɛɡən/

Popularity without panic

Uncommon — #889 in the latest U.S. ranking.

Still uncommon, but no longer unfamiliar.

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