Margareth

#9,862 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Margaret

Margareth has been given to 301 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #9,862 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Margareth, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Margareth: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Margaret

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Margareth means

Margareth is a variant of Margaret.

Origin, language, and formation

Margareth is used in Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Margaret.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 301 girls were recorded with the name Margareth between 1911 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 21 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,713 in 1911.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,807 in 2020 to #9,862 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Margareth?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 332,000; 10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 161,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #9,862; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 229,791 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Margareth 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Margareth. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Margareths were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Margareth was born before 2006 — so the typical Margareth is around 19 today.

Median birth year: 2006; About 19 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 25.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 52.5%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 205; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 25.6% of all recorded uses (77).

Is Margareth 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: −3,964; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: +945; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 47.6%; Peak was 2024 (21)
Years since peak: 1; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 30.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,713; 1911

Spellings of Margareth

Margareth is not the most common spelling — Margaret is, with 94.6% against Margareth's 0.02%.

Margaret94.6%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.

Margareth around the world

Where Margareth 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
1941–2025
#5,363
in 2025
Norway
1880–1992
#573
in 1992
South Australia
1958–1961
#458
in 1961

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Margareth by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #9,862
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 945
Best rank ever: #2,713; 1911
Peak year: 2024; 21 that year
First recorded: 1911
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 301
Count in 2025: 10

Names similar to Margareth

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

Sibling names for Margareth

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 Leonor Karleigh Rhianna Adelle Keren Kendyl

For a brother

Aaden Kale Evans Hamilton Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah

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