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Marga

Girls' name

Diminutive of Margarete

Marga has been given to 343 babies in the U.S. since 1914. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1960, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Marga, 1993

1 in 754,000

Marga over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marga: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Margarete

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marga means

Marga is a diminutive of Margarete.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Marga is used in German and Dutch.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈmɑr.ɣaː/ for Marga.

Origin, language, and formation

Marga is used in Galician and German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Margarete and Margarida.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 343 girls were recorded with the name Marga between 1914 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1960; its best national rank was #2,825 in 1946.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Marga?

Marga had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1993
1 in 754,000
5 of 3,768,729 births
Among girls only
1 in 362,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1993
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
522,458 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marga sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1993 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 522,458 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marga. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Margas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marga was born before 1952 — so the typical Marga is around 73 today.

Median birth year
1952
About 73 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
23.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
191
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1950s — 23.3% of all recorded uses (80).

Is Marga rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1960 (15)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,825
1946

Spellings of Marga

Marga is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 46.9% against Marga's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Marga around the world

Where Marga ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1931–2025
    #6,301
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Marga by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,825
1946
Peak year
1960
15 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
343
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Marga

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Marga

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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