Entry № 7000 · Irish origin

Morrigan Morrigan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MOR-ih-gan /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Great queen, phantom queen"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Irish)

A name that means "great queen, phantom queen".

Morrigan (An Mórrígan) is the Irish goddess of war, fate, and sovereignty — a shape-shifter who often appears as a crow or raven.

Morrigan is rising slowly as a girls' name — chosen by parents drawn to dark Celtic mythological weight.

Great queen, phantom queen — a Irish name.

The name in its native script.

An Mórrígan
Transliteration
An Mórrígan
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɔːr.ɪ.ɡən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Morrigan stands.

Morrigan does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Morrigans before her.

Real people

In fiction
Morrigan
Irish war goddess of myth.
Irish mythology

Names connected to Morrigan.

The number behind Morrigan.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Morrigan reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.