Megan

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Gender Female Related names Meg, Margaret		Meaning pearl
Pronunciation /ˈmeɪɡən/ (MAY-gən) or /ˈmɛɡən/ (MEG-ən) or /ˈmiːɡən/ (MEEG-ən) Welsh pronunciation: [ˈmɛɡan] Word/name Welsh, ultimately from Greek or Irish

Megan (also spelled Meghan, Meagen, Meagan, Meaghan, Megyn etc.) is a Welsh female name, originally a pet form of Meg or Meggie, which is itself a short form of Margaret. Megan is one of the most popular Welsh names in England and Wales, commonly truncated to Meg. Nowadays it is generally used as an independent name rather than as a nickname.

Megan was one of the most popular girls' names in the English-speaking world in the 1990s, peaking in 1990 in the United States and 1999 in the United Kingdom. Approximately 54 percent of people named Megan born in the US were born in 1990 or later.

Notable Megans include:

Megan Boone (born 1983), American actress

Megan Danso (born 1990), Canadian actress

Meagen Fay (born 1957), American actress

Megan Follows (born 1968), Canadian actress

Megan Fox (born 1986), American actress

Meagan Good (born 1981), American actress

Megan Hart (born 1971), American author

Megan Hauserman (born 1981), American model and reality TV star

Megan Hilty (born 1981), American actress

Megan Jendrick (born 1984), American swimmer

Megan Kanka, (1986–1994) American crime victim

Megyn Kelly (born 1970), American news anchor and journalist

Meghan Markle (born 1984), American actress

Meaghan Martin (born 1992), American actress

Megan McDonald (born 1959), American writer

Meagan Miller, American opera soprano

Megan Mullally (born 1958), American actress

Megyn Price (born 1971), American actress

Megan Rapinoe (born 1985), American association football player

Meghann Shaughnessy (born 1979), American tennis player

Meghan Trainor (born 1993), American singer/songwriter

Megan Young (born 1990), Filipina-American actress and Miss World

Fictional characters

Meggan, a fictional comic book superhero appearing in books published by Marvel Comics

Megan Caravan, a character in the television series Ruby Gloom

Megan "Meg" Griffin, a character in the television series Family Guy

Megan Parker, a character in the television series Drake & Josh

Megan Sparkles, a character in the television series Sanjay and Craig

Megan Macey, a character in the television series Emmerdale

Meagan Aylward and Megan Hounsell, characters in the 2011 film Cyberbully

Megan Williams, a character from the TV series My Little Pony

Megan Harries, owner of Cwmderi's chapel, Bethania, in the Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm

References

Megan Wikipedia

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