Margareta

Girls' name

Pearl, through Margaret

Margareta has been given to 494 babies in the U.S. since 1898. 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 1927, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Margareta, 2021

1 in 424,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Margareta: meaning, origin, and history

Pearl, through Margaret

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Margareta means

Margareta belongs to the name family reached through Margareta → Margaret. Its meaning is “pearl”.

Origin, language, and formation

Margareta is used in English, German, Norwegian and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Margaret and Margarete.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Swedish, Margareta is pronounced /marɡa²reːta/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 494 girls were recorded with the name Margareta between 1898 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1927; its best national rank was #1,623 in 1898.

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 Margareta?

Margareta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021: 1 in 424,000; 8 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only: 1 in 205,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 293,719 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Margareta 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 2021 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 293,719 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Margareta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Margaretas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Margareta was born before 1948 — so the typical Margareta is around 77 today.

Median birth year: 1948; About 77 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 19.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 4.9%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 230; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 19.8% of all recorded uses (98).

Is Margareta 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1927 (17)
Years since peak: 98; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 33.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,623; 1898

Spellings of Margareta

Margareta is not the most common spelling — Margaret is, with 94.5% against Margareta's 0.04%.

Margaret94.5%1,264,774
Margarita3.0%40,219
Margret0.75%10,068
Margarette0.46%6,164
Margarett0.37%4,933
Margaretta0.19%2,535
Margarete0.18%2,376
Margarite0.14%1,920

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.

Margareta around the world

Where Margareta 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.

England & Wales
2013–2019
#5,591
in 2019
South Australia
1947–1991
#669
in 1991

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Margareta 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: —
Best rank ever: #1,623; 1898
Peak year: 1927; 17 that year
First recorded: 1898
Last recorded: 2021
All-time count: 494
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Margareta

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

Sibling names for Margareta

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

Darline Leatrice Pearline Ima Belva Edward George Paul

For a brother

Frances Jewel Napoleon Raymon Domenick Jules Bud Hosea

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