Megan

  • Greta
  • Gretchen
  • Gretel
  • Madge
  • Maggie
  • Máiréad
  • Maisie
  • Margareta
  • Margarete
  • Margarida
  • Margarita
  • Marge
  • Margherita
  • Margie
  • Margit
  • Margo
  • Margot
  • Marguerite
  • Peggy
  • Rita

Megan is a Welsh feminine given name, originally a diminutive form of Margaret. Margaret is from the Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs), Latin margarīta, "pearl". Megan is one of the most popular Welsh-language names for women in Wales and England, and is commonly truncated to Meg.[1]

Megan was one of the most popular feminine names in the English-speaking world in the 1990s, peaking in 1990 in the United States[2] and 1999 in the United Kingdom.[3] Approximately 54% of people named Megan born in the US were born in 1990 or later.[2] Megan is also frequently spelled Meagan, Meaghan, Meghan, or Mehgan outside of Wales and the rest of the United Kingdom due to spelling influence from Irish-language names [4]

Meagan

  • Meagan Best (born 2002), Barbadian squash player
  • Meagan Cignoli, American photographer, filmmaker, and businessperson
  • Meagan Day, American writer, editor, and activist
  • Meagan Dixon (born 1997), Australian WBBL player
  • Meagan Duhamel (born 1985), Canadian pair skater
  • Meagan Flynn (born 1967), American judge
  • Meagan Fuller (born 1992), American beauty pageant titleholder
  • Meagan Good (born 1981), American actress
  • Meagan Hanson, American attorney and former politician
  • Meagan Harbison (born 1995), American-born Dominican footballer
  • Meagan Hockaday (died 2015), American murder victim
  • Meagan Holder, American actress
  • Meagan Kiely (born 1994), Australian AFLW player
  • Meagan Marie, American online community manager and former video game journalist
  • Meagan May (born 1991), American retired softball player
  • Meagan McCray (born 1987), American former soccer goalkeeper
  • Meagan McGrath (born 1977), Canadian aerospace engineer, mountaineer, and explorer
  • Meagan McKinney (born 1961), American novelist and biologist
  • Meagan Miller, American opera soprano
  • Meagan Simonaire (born 1990), American former politician
  • Meagan Spooner, American science fiction- and fantasy author
  • Meagan Tandy (born 1985), American actress and model
  • Meagan Warthold (born 1972), Australian weightlifter
  • Meagan Winings, American Miss Nebraska USA winner
  • Meagan Wolfe, U.S. election official

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  • Mehgan Heaney-Grier (born 1977), American freediver, fashion model, actress, conservationist, and TV personality

Fictional characters

  • M3GAN, a fictional robot prototype from a Universal Pictures horror movie.
  • Megan, a female background character that appears in the Recess franchise
  • Meggan (character), a fictional comic book superhero appearing in books published by Marvel Comics
  • Megan "Meg" Abbott, a character in The Leftovers (TV series), portrayed by Liv Tyler
  • Megan Adams, a character in the Australian television series Upright
  • Meagan Aylward and Megan Hounsell, characters in the 2011 film Cyberbully
  • Megan Bloomfield, the protagonist of the movie But I'm a Cheerleader
  • Megan Buchanan, a character in One Life to Live
  • Megan Carter, a character in the film Absence of Malice
  • Megan Clark, a character in The Amazing Spiez
  • Meghann "Meggie" Cleary, the central character in The Thorn Birds
  • Megan Conley, a character in The Bold and the Beautiful, portrayed by Maeve Quinlan
  • Megan Craig Riley, a character in One Life to Live
  • Megan Donner, a character in CSI: Miami, portrayed by Kim Delaney
  • Megan Draper, a character in the television series Mad Men
  • Dr. Megan Eisenberg, a character in the film Father of the Bride Part II
  • Megan "Meg" Griffin, a character in the television series Family Guy
  • Pixie (Megan Gwynn), a fictional comic book superhero appearing in books published by Marvel Comics
  • Megan Harries, owner of Cwmderi's chapel, Bethania, in the Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm
  • Megan Macey, a character in the television series Emmerdale
  • Megan Parker, a character in the television series Drake & Josh
  • Megan Reed, a fictional neuroscientist appearing in the video game ‘’Deus Ex: Human Revolution’’ and ‘’Deus Ex: Mankind Divided’’
  • Megan Sharma, a character in Doctors (2000 TV series), portrayed by Ritu Arya
  • Megan Sparkles, a character in the television series Sanjay and Craig
  • Megan the Monday Fairy, a character from the Rainbow Magic book franchise
  • Megan Voorhees, a minor character in Scary Movie 2
  • Megan Wheeler, a character in Law & Order: Criminal Intent, portrayed by Julianne Nicholson
  • Megan Williams, a character from the TV series My Little Pony

See also

  • Mehigan, an Irish language surname that has the variants Megan, Meaghan and Meighan
  • Megan's Law, a US law regarding sex offenders

References

  1. ^ "Common Welsh Girls Names". 2 June 2012. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Girl Name Megan – Trends, Comments and Popularity of Megan". www.babynameshub.com. Archived from the original on 9 August 2017. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  3. ^ Powell-Smith, Anna. "Baby Names in England & Wales". English Baby Names. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  4. ^ Hanks, Patrick (2006). A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 191. ISBN 9780198610601.
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