Margaret Variations & Nicknames
Honor Margaret with a different spelling, a familiar short form, or a form used in another language. Each choice below identifies its connection to the name family and has its own U.S. popularity history.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
An English form or familiar short form of Margaret. | 2,436#112 | Up 14 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
An English form or familiar short form of Margaret. | 301#889 | Down 249 rank positions in five years | 1990 | ||
An English form or familiar short form of Margaret. | 12#8,738 | Down 2,718 rank positions in five years | 1958 | ||
An English form or familiar short form of Margaret. | 246#1,019 | Up 117 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
An English form or familiar short form of Margaret. | 3,206#75 | Up 68 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
An English form or familiar short form of Margaret. | 1,041#294 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
An English form or familiar short form of Margaret. | 17#6,729 | Up 84 rank positions in five years | 1925 | ||
An English form or familiar short form of Margaret. | 102#1,906 | Down 1,026 rank positions in five years | 1985 | ||
A French form or diminutive of Margaret. | 71#2,505 | Down 44 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
An international form or diminutive in the Margaret family. | 104#1,893 | Up 199 rank positions in five years | 1957 | ||
An English form or familiar short form of Margaret. | 540#559 | Up 206 rank positions in five years | 1954 | ||
An English form or familiar short form of Margaret. | 2,575#102 | Up 132 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
An English form or familiar short form of Margaret. | 6#14,300 | Down 3,492 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
An English form or familiar short form of Margaret. | —Unranked | — | 1920 | ||
An English form or familiar short form of Margaret. | 1,328#233 | Up 177 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
An English form or familiar short form of Margaret. | 21#5,842 | Up 2,405 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
An English form or familiar short form of Margaret. | —Unranked | — | 1959 | ||
A French form or diminutive of Margaret. | 191#1,199 | Up 209 rank positions in five years | 2021 | ||
A French form or diminutive of Margaret. | —Unranked | — | 1961 | ||
An international form or diminutive in the Margaret family. | —Unranked | — | 1926 | ||
An English form or familiar short form of Margaret. | —Unranked | — | 1957 | ||
An international form or diminutive in the Margaret family. | —Unranked | — | 1959 | ||
An international form or diminutive in the Margaret family. | —Unranked | — | 1927 | ||
An international form or diminutive in the Margaret family. | —Unranked | — | 1912 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.