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It’s ok per se, but so horribly dated and overused. Needs a long rest.

Megan is SO POPULAR for my generation. I like it, still. I prefer the "Meh-gehn" pronunciation to any of the others. I cringe at "Mee-gehn".

Megan was oh so very common when I was growing up I grew to be a lttle sick of it. It's so overused in my age group here that I have 2 seperate cousins named it and 1 2nd cousin. On my adolecent sports team of 12 girls we had 2 Megans. So many...

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But as I have gotten older I am slightly more accustomed to it. In part because I am socialising with a lot more age groups now than merely my own so the diversity alone has helped it I think. Though I'll admit I still don't love it necissarily. *Don't tell my cousins haha* That's interesting that it makes you think of the color green as it does for me as well. But more green and Turquoise than green and gold. Side note it's cool that certain names can make you think of different colors.

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I don't think it is really "dated" yet because I don't really consider a name "dated" until the majority have reached thier 30s and most I know are still in their 20s. THe youngest Megans I know are around middle school aged but no younger; as of late I haven't come across a baby Megan myself in at least a decade.

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Megan is the most common spelling here and the Meghan's (the runner up spelling) usually have it mispelled as Megan. I once knew a girl who spelled it Maygin once and that to me is just tragic. But I do think that the Meghan spelling will have it's time in the sun due to Meghan Markle and I attribute it's return to the charts a result of her.

This message was edited 9/12/2021, 7:52 AM

I like Megan. It's definitely an 80s/90s name here, but to me it's one of the more palatable ones. In my mind, I group it with Lauren and Caitlin. This group of names is somewhere in the middle, between names like Elizabeth, Laura, Rebecca, and Sarah that were popular then and are extremely traditional, and names like Brittany, Lindsay, Ashley, and Shannon that sort of came out of nowhere with little to no history of usage for baby girls, and then disappeared. Megan is definitely dated to the time period, but not nearly as much as something like Brittany is.

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It's soft and pretty. I can sort of undermine my cheerleader association if I think of its origins as a Welsh form of Margaret. Margarets do not cheerlead, ha.

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I say Megan with an "e" like "egg." But then some people say "ayg." I really don't like it pronounced Maygen or Meegan. The creative spellings are atrocious and make me embarrassed for the parents who deluded themselves into believing that Meaghan would somehow honor their distant Irish heritage.

This message was edited 9/12/2021, 6:36 AM

I like it Megan pronounced me gan in Australia

I'm starting to get tired of it, it's too common and bland. I wouldn't say I don't like it, it's just an okay name.

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Too 80's.

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This is the only form I like and the most common, so I don't think it will get misspelled so often. Meagan, Meghan and etc. are too creative, no need to change the pronunciation.

Before it became popular, the only pronunciation I ever heard was the original one: MEGan. But with the MEEgan version came the whole bunch of current spelling variations, though I;ll never understand where the -h- came from.

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I used to like it very much. Now, I'd avoid it.