NamePolitics

Meagan

sits well left of most names

liberaltypical nameconservative
Score
−0.69
More liberal than
95% of names
Measured from
288 contributors
more liberalevery scored namemore conservative

That ranking compares Meagan with other names. The typical name scores −0.22, because people who donate to campaigns lean left as a group, so a name can sit left of zero and still be middle of the pack. The party splits below use a different yardstick again: each one is measured against an even fifty-fifty.

DIME contributor ideal points, 1979-2014. Negative is liberal, positive conservative.

How does Meagan compare with someone else's name?

Party, by population

Different groups of people, measured in different ways. They do not always agree, and the disagreement is usually the interesting part.

Campaign donors, nationwide423 people
83% Democratic17% Republican

Federal contributions, 2016 to 2026. Donors skew older and wealthier than the country.

Registered voters, North Carolina786 people
41% Democratic59% Republican

Actual party registration, which is a choice people make at the DMV rather than with a chequebook.

Registered voters, Florida1,550 people
45% Democratic55% Republican

Party registration again, in a state with a very different mix of people. Florida and North Carolina agree on which way a name leans 88% of the time.

Primary voters, Ohio200 people
62% Democratic38% Republican

Ohio has no party registration, so this is the last primary ballot each voter chose to pull.

Worth noticing: donors named Meagan lean Democratic while registered voters named Meagan lean Republican. This happens for about a quarter of names, and it is why this page refuses to give you a single number.

Is it the name, or the people who have it?

Names carry age, sex and ethnicity, and those predict politics on their own. Comparing every Meagan in North Carolina against other registrants of the same age, sex and race leaves −0.19 that the demographics do not explain. The name still carries a real signal of its own, leaning Republican.

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