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Margaretta

Girls' name

Pearl, through Margaret

Margaretta has been given to 2,535 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1915, with 76 recorded.

Babies named Margaretta, 2007

1 in 800,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Margaretta: meaning, origin, and history

Pearl, through Margaret

Ancient Greek

What Margaretta means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Margaretta is used in English. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Margaret.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,535 girls were recorded with the name Margaretta between 1880 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 76 in 1915; its best national rank was #553 in 1884.

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 Margaretta?

Margaretta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2007
1 in 800,000
5 of 3,997,748 births
Among girls only
1 in 384,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2007
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
554,207 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Margaretta 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 2007 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 554,207 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Margaretta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Margarettas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Margaretta was born before 1927 — so the typical Margaretta is around 98 today.

Median birth year
1927
About 98 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
18.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
581
People you could plausibly meet
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1920s — 18.7% of all recorded uses (475).

Is Margaretta 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1915 (76)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#553
1884

Spellings of Margaretta

Margaretta is not the most common spelling — Margaret is, with 95.5% against Margaretta's 0.19%.

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 Margaretta is used

Across 1910–2025, Margaretta was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 71,597 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in 14,286
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4North Carolina1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Virginia1 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. Margaretta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Margaretta around the world

Where Margaretta 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.

  • Ireland
    1964–1976
    #497
    in 1976
  • South Australia
    1952–1953
    #449
    in 1953

Popularity data from Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Margaretta

People whose public names include Margaretta, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Margaretta in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Margaretta. Linked forms have their own page here.

Margarette

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Margaretta 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
#553
1884
Peak year
1915
76 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
2,535
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Margaretta

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

MarquettaMaryettaMarquittaMargrettaMariettaMarkettaMariaelenaMarylouiseMarriettaMariajoseMaryaliceMarettaMaricarmenMargareteMargaretteMarygraceMarcelinaMarybelleMaricellaMarvettaMarlettaMaribelleMarielenaMarialuisa

Names with a curve like Margaretta

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Margaretta, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MammieLomaTinyCliffordVetaAnnisLuveniaElvinaVersieColettaRosiaLaurine

Sibling names for Margaretta

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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