How common is Megan for a girl? I like it but it’s apparently really well used lately.

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/specials/babiesnames_girls.asp

97th in 2008
92nd in 2007
Not top 100 before that.
So going out of fashion then 🙂

http://www.babynames.com/Names/Popular/

If you like it,it doesn’t matter if it’s in vogue ,or not.

Young Dave’s got a wise head on those young shoulders. Indeed, if you like a name, and it’s not bloody silly, go for it. Megan’s a lovely classic name that’ll never go out of fashion and is coincidently the name of my youngest (though nearly 16) boy*!!!

*only kidding

If you like it,it doesn’t matter if it’s in vogue ,or not.

I’m not asking if it matters, I’m asking how many Megans you know… I’ll decide if it matters or not 🙂

if it is the top 100 it is just not niche enough sorry

PS I only know one

Ooo…get you molgrips!

One Megan here in my Thea’s class at school.

Megan’s a nice name, I think its quite common now tho’ IMHO

We’re going through baby names too and as Mrs.Tank is a Taffy we’ve come up with Seren (means star in Welsh) if the bairn’s a girl of course.

I think Darcy’s a fabulous name for a girl!

It’s not always going to be a baby…

Tankslapper I’ve always loved the name “seren” for a girl (oh dear way up with us Taffs!). I only know one Megan I think “Eve” or “Evie” has been mega popular lately.

Don’t know any Megans amongst my 5yr olds mates
Whatever you choose, they will grow into their name
Personally i quite like Sprocket

I’ve been teaching for 30 years

taught a lot of Megans

Not a wrong’un amongst them – all been fantastic, well-balanced, high-achieving

Go for it

I’ve known 2 Megans. Both absolutely gorgeous 😆

The popularity of names for Scotland are given here:
http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/publications-and-data/popular-names/index.html

Gives you rank and also the number of children registered every year. The most common names are very common and then it drops off considerably. Some of the unusual names are very unusual!
A bit of jiggery-pokery in Excel allows you to calculate the frequency of each name.

With Thud we thought we had a fairly unique name (Hayden), although every other Scottish kid is called hud, and then we met another Thud in the park. For Wifey and Me there is only the one.

Most people call their kids GA GA OR GOO goo as thats the name most people call the baby when they first see them.

Megans a lovely name, unusual, and Welsh.

It’s also the name of possibly the very first girl I actually liked. I was only about 9 at the time, and I didn’t really know at the time but I think I might’ve been quite fond of the lass. Megan Morrison from Leominster – if you’re reading, 😉

Megan is really nice. I was keen on Siobhan for our kid, if it was a girl. Everyone I mentioned it to practically threw up – like I was suggesting Moon Unit or something. Turned out to be a boy in the end so it was all moot.

I’m not asking if it matters, I’m asking how many Megans you know… I’ll decide if it matters or not [:)]

Dave Gorman is the expert on the frequency of names appearing in the population.