Margarida

Girls' name

English equivalent of Margaret

Margarida has been given to 27 babies in the U.S. since 1922. 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 1972, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Margarida, 1990

1 in 790,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Margarida: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Margaret

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Margarida means

Margarida is a English equivalent of Margaret.

Origin, language, and formation

Margarida is used in Catalan, Galician and Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Margaret.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Catalan, Margarida is pronounced [mər.ɡəˈɾi.ðə].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 27 girls were recorded with the name Margarida between 1922 and 1990. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1972; its best national rank was #5,496 in 1922.

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.

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How common is Margarida?

Margarida had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1990, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1990: 1 in 790,000; 5 of 3,949,959 births
Among girls only: 1 in 379,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1990: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 547,582 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Margarida 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 1990 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 547,582 children born in 1990 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Margarida. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Margaridas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Margarida was born before 1973 — so the typical Margarida is around 52 today.

Median birth year: 1973; About 52 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 63.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 81.5%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 22; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 63.0% of all recorded uses (17).

Is Margarida 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 1972 (6)
Years since peak: 53; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,496; 1922

Spellings of Margarida

Margarida is not the most common spelling — Margarita is, with 95.4% against Margarida's 0.06%.

Margarita95.4%40,219
Margarite4.6%1,920
Margarida0.06%27

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.

Margarida around the world

Where Margarida 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
2001–2025
#4,201
in 2025
Ireland
2017–2017
#873
in 2017
France
1966–2025
#4,134
in 2025
South Australia
1967–1994
#716
in 1994

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Margarida 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: #5,496; 1922
Peak year: 1972; 6 that year
First recorded: 1922
Last recorded: 1990
All-time count: 27
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Margarida

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

Sibling names for Margarida

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

Nicola Latonia Jenni Nicki Sharla Niki Trena Charisse

For a brother

Shon Shelton Darrick Judd Douglass Alfonzo Demond Scottie

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