Meg

A female given name, form of Margaret.

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Meg is a feminine given name, often a short form of Margaret, Megan, Megumi (Japanese), etc. It may refer to:
People:
Meggin Meg Cabot (born 1967), American author of romantic and paranormal fiction
Margaret Meg Burton Cahill (born 1954), American politician and former Arizona state senator
Margaret Meg Foster (born 1948), American actress
Mary Ellen Meg Greenfield (1930-1999), American Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer and columnist
Meg Frampton (born 1985), guitarist and back-up singer for the band Meg & Dia
Meg Kelly, American television soap opera screenwriter
Meghann Meg Lanning (born 1992), Australian cricketer
Meg Lee Chin, Taiwanese-American singer-songwriter, best known as a member of the group Pigface
Meg LeFauve, American screenwriter (co-nominated for the Academy Award for Inside Out) and producer
Meg Lees (born 1948), Australian politician
Meg Mallon (born 1963), American LPGA golfer
Meagan Meg Morris (born 1992), American National Women's Soccer League player
Margaret Meg Ryan (born 1961), American actress
Meg Tilly, Canadian-American actress born Margaret Elizabeth Chan in 1960
Megan Meg White (born 1974), American drummer, half of the rock duo The White Stripes (with former husband Jack White)
Margaret Meg Whitman (born 1956), former CEO of eBay and California gubernatorial candidate
Meg Wolitzer (born 1959), American author
Margaret Meg Wyllie (1917–2002), American actress
Margarete Pioresan, known as Meg (born 1956), Brazilian football goalkeeper
Fictional characters:
Meg Griffin, one of the main characters on the animated television show Family Guy
Margaret 'Meg' March, in Louisa May Alcott's novels Little Women, Little Men and Jo's Boys
Meg Masters, on the television show Supernatural
Margaret Meg Murry, in Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet novels
Margaret Meg Snyder, on the American soap opera As the World Turns
the title character of Meg!, a comic strip
Meg, short for Megara (Disney) in Disney's 1997 film Hercules
Meg, a ditsy barmaid and the doppelgänger of Xena: Warrior Princess

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Fem. proper name; before the late 20c. rise in popularity of Megan it typically was a pet form of Margaret, and was "used dial. to indicate a hoyden, coarse woman, etc." [OED]

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Medieval diminutive of Margaret: pearl.

Megumi, Megan

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Meg Ryan	1961	American actress and producer
2	Meg Tilly	1960	American-Canadian actress
3	Meg White	1974	American musician
4	Meg Whitman	1956	American business executive
5	Meg Foster	1948	Actress
6	Meg Turney	1987	American Internet personality
7	Meg Myers	1986	American singer-songwriter
8	Meg Cabot	1967	Novelist
9	Meg Masters
10	Meg Chambers Steedle		American actress
11	Meg Imperial	1993	Filipino actress
12	Meg Lanning	1992	Australian cricketer
13	Meg LeFauve	2000	American film producer, screenwriter and television producer
14	Meg Wyllie	1917	Actress
15	Mystic Meg	1942	Newspaper astrologer
16	Meg Murry		Character from A Wrinkle in Time
17	Meg Rosoff	1956	American-British children's writer
18	Meg Mac	1990	Australian singer-songwriter and musician
19	Meg Johnson	1936	Actress
20	Meg Hillier	1969	British politician
21	Meg Giry		Character from Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera
22	Meg Mundy	1915	English-American actress
23	Meg Wolitzer	1959	American writer
24	Meg Wynn Owen	1939	Welsh actress
25	Meg Griffin	1953	American radio disc jockey
26	Meg Bennett	1950	American actress and writer
27	Meg Hourihan		American writer
28	Meg Crofton	1953	American businesswoman
29	Meg McGuffin	1993
30	Meg Gill	1985
31	Meg Cummings
32	Meg Baird		American musician
33	Meg Mallon	1963	Professional golfer
34	Meg Greenfield	1930	American journalist
35	Meg Oliver	1970	American journalist
36	Meg Randall	1926	American actress
37	Meg Christian	1946	American musician
38	Meg Taylor	1950	Papua New Guinean lawyer and diplomat
39	Meg Meeker
40	Meg Snyder
41	Meg Munn	1959	British politician
42	Meg Okura	1973	Japanese musician
43	Meg Gardiner	1957	American writer
44	Meg Scott Phipps		North Carolina politician
45	Meg Myles	1934	American pin-up model, singer, and actress
46	Meg Lee Chin		Taiwanese musician
47	Meg Lees	1948	Australian politician
48	Meg Hutchinson	1978	Folk music singer/songwriter
49	Meg Stuart	1965	American choreographer and dancer
50	Meg Urry
51	Meg Medina		Cuban American children's writer
52	Meg Pfeiffer	2000	Singer
53	Meg Bussert	1949	American opera singer
54	Meg Swansen		American knitting designer
55	Meg Morris	1992	Association footballer
56	Meg Gallagher	1950	American television actor
57	Meg Saligman		American artist
58	Meg Tivéus	1943
59	Meg Davis	1953	Singer, Songwriter, Music Composer, Recording Engineer, Artist
60	Meg Wittner	1950	American actress
61	Meg Bateman	1959	Scottish writer
62	Meg Jayanth
63	Meg Waite Clayton	1959	American writer
64	Meg Cranston	1960	American artist
65	Meg Ritchie	1952	British discus thrower and shot putter
66	Meg Kelly		American soap opera screenwriter
67	Meg Lundsager		American businessman
68	Margaret J. Wheatley	1941	American writer
69	Meg Paterson
70	Meg Westergren	1932	Swedish actress
71	Meg Farris	1958	Journalist
72	Meg McLaughlin	1995	Association footballer
73	Meg Shelton		Alleged English witch
74	Meg Beresford	1937	British activist
75	Meg Thalken	1954	American actress
76	Meg Campbell	1937	New Zealand poet
77	Meg Wade	1961	Equestrian
78	Meg Dale
79	Meg Kissinger		American journalist
80	Meg Goetz		Reading Clerk of the US House of Representatives
81	Meg Sneed	1982	American activist
82	Meg Burton Cahill	1954	American politician who served as Arizona State Senator
83	Meg Linton		Art curator
84	Meg Lemonnier	1905	British actress
85	Meg Kasdan	2000	American actress and producer
86	Meg Jackson		American screenwriter
87	Meg Miroshnik		American writer
88	Meg Jacobs
89	Meg Muñoz
90	Meg Wolfe
91	Meg Farquhar	1910	Professional golfer
92	Meg Gentle
93	Meg Galliard	1973	American yacht racer
94	Meg Webster
95	Meg Gehrts	1891	German actress, author and film editor
96	Meg McCall	1931	Canadian politician
97	MEG	1984	Japanese composer
98	Meg	1972	Italian singer
99	Meg Kendal	1989
100	Meg Bennet	1950	Screenwriter, actress
101	Meg de Jongh	1925	Dutch association football player and athletics competitor
102	Meg of Abernethy	1355	Scottish harper
103	Meg Miners	1944
104	Meg Marnon	1953
105	Meg Downie
106	Meg Elis	1950	British politician
107	Meg Phillips
108	Meg Howrey