Meg
Below 5 births
About Meg
Meg, perennially one of the Little Women, is a Margaret short form that manages to be neither quite in nor quite out of style. Meg is sleeker and more sophisticated than Maggie, more contemporary than Peg, more stylish than Megan, and still one of the best diminutives of Margaret.
Meg Ryan was born Margaret Mary Emily Anne.
Pronounced MEG.
As of October 2026, Meg ranked #14712 in US births in 2022 SSA, peaked at #715 in 1959.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Meg on lists
Famous Megs
- Meggin Patricia "Meg" Cabot
American novelist
- Meg Haston
American novelist
- Meg Resnikoff
co,founder of YouTube channel "whatsupmoms"
- Meg Tilly (born Margaret Elizabeth Chan)
American actress
- Meg Ryan (born Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra)
American actress
- Megan Martha "Meg" White
American musician of band The White Stripes
- Margaret "Meg" Foster
American actress
- Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitman
American politician and former CEO of eBay
- Meg
Japanese singer
- Maria "Meg" Di Donna
Italian singer of band 99 Posse and duo Nous
- Meg Frampton
guitarist and singer for American band Meg & Dia
- Megan "Meg" DeAngelis
beauty YouTuber
- Meg DeLacy
American actress and singer
- "Meg"; Meghan
Duchess of Sussex; born Rachel Meghan Markle; wife of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
- Meg Donnelly
American actress
Meg in pop culture
- Margaret "Meg" March
eldest sister in Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women"
- Meg Giry
character in "The Phantom of the Opera"
- Meg Masters
demon on TV's "Supernatural"
- Megan/Megatron "Meg" Griffin
daughter on TV's "Family Guy"
- Megara "Meg
" character in Disney's "Hercules"
- Margaret "Meg" Murry
main character in "A Wrinkle In Time" by Madeleine L'Engle
- Meg Merillies
gypsy queen in "Guy Mannering" by Sir Walter Scott
- Meg Manning
character on TV's "Veronica Mars"
- "Meg
" book series by Steve Alten about a monster megalodon
- Meg
doppelganger of "Xena: Warrior Princess"
- Aunt Meg
character in the film "Twister"
- Meg Rayburn
character in Netflix's "Bloodline"
- Meg Ramsey
character in "Sufficiently Remarkable"
- Meg McCaffrey
character in the "The Trials of Apollo", book series by Rick Riordan