Megan is the Welsh diminutive of Margaret — from the Greek margarites (pearl). **A top-20 US baby name from 1985 to 2001, peaking at #10 in 1990**. **Megan Rapinoe (born 1985)** — American soccer star; **co-captain of the US team that won the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup; led the equal-pay lawsuit that resulted in US Soccer paying women equally to men**. **Meghan Markle (Duchess of Sussex, born 1981)** — American actress; married Prince Harry in 2018. **Megan Smith (born 1964)** — Third Chief Technology Officer of the United States under Obama.
Subject of countless soccer documentaries and the 2019 USWNT Equal Pay lawsuit chronicled in *LFG* (2021).
Megan reduces to nine — the number of Welsh pearl.