Margalit

#10,598 in 2025Girls' name

Pearl

Margalit has been given to 178 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #10,598 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Margalit, 2025

1 in 368,000

Margalit over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Margalit: meaning, origin, and history

Pearl

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Margalit means

Margalit means “pearl”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 178 girls were recorded with the name Margalit between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2022; its best national rank was #8,758 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,987 in 2020 to #10,598 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,565 in 2015 to #10,598 in 2025.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Margalit?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 368,000; 9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 179,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #10,598; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 255,323 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Margalit 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 2025 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Margalit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Margalits were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Margalit was born before 2015 — so the typical Margalit is around 10 today.

Median birth year: 2015; About 10 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 35.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 83.1%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 178; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 35.4% of all recorded uses (63).

Is Margalit 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: −1,840; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: +2,389; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +1,967; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.13×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 75.0%; Peak was 2022 (12)
Years since peak: 3; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 18.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,758; 2024

Spellings of Margalit

Margalit is not the most common spelling — Margaret is, with 96.4% against Margalit's 0.01%.

Margaret96.4%1,264,774
Margarita3.1%40,219
Magali0.27%3,562
Margarite0.15%1,920
Margit0.05%672
Margart0.05%598
Margalit0.01%178

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.

Where Margalit is used

Across 1910–2025, Margalit was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Margalit has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Margalit by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #10,598
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 2,389
Best rank ever: #8,758; 2024
Peak year: 2022; 12 that year
First recorded: 1985
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 178
Count in 2025: 9

Names similar to Margalit

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

Marliyah Marianny Marializ Mariyana Marieliz Marlette Marciana Markella Marielys Marlayah Maryori Marabella Maryuri Marieme Mariposa Marlaya Marlaysia Marionna Maritta Marialena Marielly Marsali Marabelle Maripaz

Sibling names for Margalit

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

For a sister

Annabell Abagail Karleigh Sydnie Rhianna Alysa Adelle Keren

For a brother

Aaden Kale Hamilton Evans Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah

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