Recorded 1880–2025 · United States
Morgan was most popular in 1995, when 12,135 American babies were given the name — ranking #55 that year. In 2025 it ranked #448, with 1,509 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 269,269 people named Morgan.
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Morgan is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 146 of the 146 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 269,269 American births named Morgan between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 258,712 are estimated to be alive today.
1,509 American babies were named Morgan in 2025, ranking #448 that year.
Morgan is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 1,766 births a year, against 3,591 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -51% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Morgan is mostly a girl’s name — 83.0% of the 269,269 Americans given it were girls and 17.0% were boys. It changed hands: since 1980 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 78% girls and 22% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 258,712 Americans named Morgan are alive today — 96% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 27 years old, and half are between 20 and 33.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org