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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.

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