Morgan is a female first name. In some cases it's also given to boys.
The name Morgan isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Morgan ranks 131. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 14 were named Morgan. In the entire USA, approximately 256,479 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Morgan. That is 0.08 % of all living Americans.
The name Morgan is of Welsh origin and it means ‘sea circle’ or ‘bright sea.’ It is derived from the Old Welsh elements ‘mor,’ meaning sea, and ‘cant,’ meaning circle or bright. It can also be a variant of the name Morgana, which is a name of Arthurian legend and means the same.
The Morgan horse is ... one of the earliest horse breeds developed in the United States. During the 19th and 20th centuries, they were exported to other countries, including England, where a Morgan stallion influenced the breeding of the Hackney horse.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Morgan is a staple in the country: Girls have been given the name Morgan for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Morgan is therefore one of only 432 girls’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Morgan is a very special name, which reached its peak of popularity only in the last quarter of the 20th century, ranking in the top 100 girls' names in our SmartGenius statistics: With position 17 Morgan has never been more popular than back in 1998.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Morgan was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 1,924 babies were named Morgan in the USA in 2022, ranking it #142 on the list of the most popular girls' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 1904, when it was only ranked at #794 of all female names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 18 girls were named Morgan.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Morgan. Because: There are women and girls named Morgan in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Morgan is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular female first names, for example in Nevada, where Morgan ranks on place 91. The greatest chance of meeting Morgan, however, is in Delaware, where one in 326 girls and women bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 706 women and girls and in Hawaii, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 1,496 women and girls for their name before you once get Morgan as an answer.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Morgan is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Morgan and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Morgan, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Morgan sounds like this:
