Megumi
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Japanese
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Megumi is a girls' name of Japanese origin. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Megumi mean?
Japanese
A female given name from Japanese.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Megumi a girl's or a boy's name?
Megumi is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Megumi in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Megumi, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 1991, with 25 girls. It first appears in the records in 1973.
Half of all the girls named Megumi in the US since 1880 were born between 1990 and 2006, the years shaded on the chart below.
Megumi in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,134 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,370 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,227 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,525 |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,711 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,495 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,823 |
| 2003 | 13 | #7,993 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,386 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,565 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,307 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,033 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,633 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,505 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,060 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,014 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,011 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,257 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,001 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,053 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,863 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,830 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,890 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,820 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,130 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,029 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,290 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,310 |
| 1982 | 14 | #4,943 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,321 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,177 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,311 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,384 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,442 |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 7 | #6,898 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,664 |
Names like Megumi
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kiyomi, Yumi, Miyori, Yuri, Mayumi, Dakota, Kori, Sayuri, Saori, Kaori, Kyomi, Suki
More Japanese names
Kobe, Kaizen, Raiden, Ren, Akari, Kenzo, Ronin, Akira, Yuna, Emi, Kairi, Miya, Kenji, Reo, Jiraiya, Aizen
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, “Megumi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/megumi, updated 20 October 2026.