Megan
| Megan | |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation |
/ˈmeɪɡən/ (MAY-gən) or /ˈmɛɡən/ (MEG-ən) or /ˈmiːɡən/ (MEEG-ən) Welsh pronunciation: [ˈmɛɡan] |
| Gender | Female |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Welsh, ultimately from Greek |
| Meaning | pearl |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Meg, Margaret |
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Megan (also spelled Meghan, Meagen, Meagan, Meaghan 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.[1] Nowadays it is generally used as an independent name rather than as a nickname.[2]
Megan was one of the most popular girls' names in the English-speaking world in the 1990s, peaking in 1990 in the United States [3] and 1999 in the United Kingdom.[4] Approximately 54 percent of people named Megan born in the US were born in 1990 or later.[5]
Notable Megans include:
- 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
- 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 2013
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, a character in the film Cyberbully
- Megan Hounsell, a character in the film Cyberbully
- Megan Williams, a character from the My Little Pony (TV series)
- Megan Harries, owner of Cwmderi's chapel, Bethania, in the Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm
See also
- MEGAN, a bioinformatics software for metagenomics
- Megan, a locality north-east of Dorrigo, New South Wales
- Mehigan, an Irish language surname that has the variants Megan, Meaghan and Meighan
References
- ↑ "Common Welsh Girls Names". Retrieved 2 June 2012.
- ↑ Hanks, Patrick; Hodges, Flavia (1990). A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. pp. 232–33. ISBN 0-19-211651-7.
- ↑ http://www.babynameshub.com/girl-names/Megan.html
- ↑ http://names.darkgreener.com/#megan
- ↑ http://www.babynameshub.com/girl-names/Megan.html
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