Margaretha

Girls' name

Form of Margaret

Margaretha has been given to 477 babies in the U.S. since 1884. 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 1912, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Margaretha, 2011

1 in 732,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Margaretha: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Margaret

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Margaretha means

Margaretha is a form of Margaret.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Margaretha is used in Dutch, Swedish and German.

Another recorded pronunciation is /mɑr.ɣaː.ˈreː.taː/ and /maʁ.ɡa.ˈʁeː.ta/ for Margaretha.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Margaretha → Margaret. The family’s meaning is “pearl”, recorded in English with the source elements margarítēs.

Origin, language, and formation

Margaretha is used in German and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Margaret and Margareta.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 477 girls were recorded with the name Margaretha between 1884 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1912; its best national rank was #604 in 1887.

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 Margaretha?

Margaretha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011: 1 in 732,000; 5 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only: 1 in 352,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 507,099 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Margaretha 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 2011 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 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Margaretha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Margarethas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Margaretha was born before 1915 — so the typical Margaretha is around 110 today.

Median birth year: 1915; About 110 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 22.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 2.1%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 55; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 22.6% of all recorded uses (108).

Is Margaretha 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 1912 (16)
Years since peak: 113; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 20.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #604; 1887

Spellings of Margaretha

Margaretha is not the most common spelling — Margaret is, with 95.6% against Margaretha's 0.04%.

Margaret95.6%1,264,774
Margarita3.0%40,219
Margarette0.47%6,164
Margarett0.37%4,933
Margaretta0.19%2,535
Margarete0.18%2,376
Margretta0.06%837
Margaretha0.04%477

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.

Margaretha around the world

Where Margaretha 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
1958–1958
#1,655
in 1958
Canada
1991–2022
#3,322
in 2022
South Australia
1957–2010
#801
in 2010

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

Margaretha 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: #604; 1887
Peak year: 1912; 16 that year
First recorded: 1884
Last recorded: 2011
All-time count: 477
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Margaretha

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

Sibling names for Margaretha

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

Golda Lauretta Era Leatha Leone Artie Alpha Hettie

For a brother

Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman

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