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Maegen

Gender
Girl
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MEG-un
Origin
Greek

Maegen is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “pearl”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Maegen mean?

Greek: spelling of Maegan, itself a spelling of Megan, a Welsh pet form of Margaret

“pearl”

Spelling of Megan, a Welsh pet form of Margaret, which comes from the Greek margarites, meaning pearl.

Meaning borrowed from Maegan. More on Wiktionary.

Is Maegen a girl's or a boy's name?

Maegen is a girls' name.

How popular is Maegen in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1990, with 53 girls. It first appears in the records in 1974.

Half of all the girls named Maegen in the US since 1880 were born between 1985 and 1995, the years shaded on the chart below.

1974Busiest: 53 in 19902008
Maegen in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20087#13,827
20070–
20066#15,147
20059#10,915
200411#9,259
20035#15,777
200221#5,440
200117#6,317
200020#5,486
199928#4,084
199819#5,359
199732#3,544
199628#3,826
199523#4,343
199435#3,229
199329#3,676
199234#3,261
199152#2,414
199053#2,340
198944#2,567
198852#2,182
198748#2,234
198647#2,194
198552#2,047
198429#2,991
198325#3,241
198217#4,346
198124#3,436
198034#2,699
197914#4,841
197810#5,957
197719#3,760
197611#5,213
197515#4,139
19745#8,773

Nicknames for Maegen

Names like Maegen

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Maegen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maegen, updated 20 October 2026.