Meighan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Meehan, or sometimes of Meekin, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Miadhachain ‘son of Miadhachdn', a personal name representing a diminutive of miadhach ‘honorable’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Meighan is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)variant of Meehan, or sometimes of Meekin, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Miadhachain ‘son of Miadhachdn', a personal name representing a diminutive of miadhach ‘honorable’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Thomas Spence Meighanb. 1849Scottish surgeon
- Thomas Meighanb. 1879USAmerican actor (1879-1936)
- John Meighanb. 1891IEIrish politician
- Stuart Spence Meighanb. 1923b.30 January 1923 d.19 January 2003
- Ron Meighanb. 1963CACanadian ice hockey player
- Tom Meighanb. 1981GBBritish singer
- Thomas MeighanJazz musician
- Stuart Spence MeighanScottish ophthalmologist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 587 | #18,161 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1988 | 43 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 29 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 27 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1987 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 18 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Meighan mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Meehan, or sometimes of Meekin, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Miadhachain ‘son of Miadhachdn', a personal name representing a diminutive of miadhach ‘honorable’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Meighan have the most bearers?
- Meighan is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meighanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Meighan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.