Megyn
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 12 babies a year in the US.
Megyn by the numbers
Megyn was given to 12 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 51 babies in 2009, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Megyn
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Megyn. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Meganpearl; a form of margaret624 in the US (2017)
- Meryn12 in the US (2017)
- Meghanpearl; a form of Margaret162 in the US (2017)
- Masynstone worker; a modern respelling of Mason100 in the US (2017)
- Meaganpearl; a form of Meagan or Megan47 in the US (2017)
- Merrynhigh; exalted; a form of Merin or Meryn34 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Megyn
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