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Margarette

#8,668 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Margaret

Margarette has been given to 6,164 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #8,668 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 200 recorded.

Babies named Margarette, 2025

1 in 276,000

Margarette over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Margarette: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Margaret

Ancient Greek

What Margarette means

Margarette is a variant of Margaret.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Margarette 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, 6,164 girls were recorded with the name Margarette between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 200 in 1921; its best national rank was #493 in 1921.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,487 in 2020 to #8,668 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,606 in 2015 to #8,668 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 Margarette?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,668
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Margarette 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Margarette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Margarettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Margarette was born before 1929 — so the typical Margarette is around 96 today.

Median birth year
1929
About 96 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
26.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,342
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 26.3% of all recorded uses (1,619).

Is Margarette 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
+91
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5,819
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,938
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.0%
Peak was 1921 (200)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#493
1921

Spellings of Margarette

Margarette is not the most common spelling — Margaret is, with 98.3% against Margarette's 0.48%.

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 Margarette is used

Across 1910–2025, Margarette was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 47,481 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 12,500
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 12,500
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 14,286
  4. 4Alabama1 in 16,667
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 16,667
  6. 6West Virginia1 in 16,667
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 20,000
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 20,000

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. Margarette has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Margarette around the world

Where Margarette 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
    1981–1981
    #533
    in 1981
  • France
    1947–2024
    #6,131
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2014–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1944–1993
    #712
    in 1993

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

Margarette in other languages

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

MargareteMargarettMargaretta

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

Margarette by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,668
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5,819
Best rank ever
#493
1921
Peak year
1921
200 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,164
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Margarette

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

MargueritteMargretteMarquetteMarguretteMarietteMarletteMarcelineMargarettMariaelenaMarinetteMarylouiseMarcelinaMaryellenMarleighMaribethMarionetteMarcelleMariajoseMaryaliceMariellaMaricarmenMargareteCharoletteMarielle

Names with a curve like Margarette

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

AdellMyrtisThedaMarjoryGeneAlleneAlberthaAleneVerniceHarrietteNovellaMarvel

Sibling names for Margarette

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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