Margarine
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Margarine has been given to 82 babies in the U.S. since 1921. 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 1931, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Margarine, 1952
1 in 542,000
Margarine over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Margarine?
Margarine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1952, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1952
- 1 in 542,000
- 7 of 3,796,842 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 265,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1952
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 375,968 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Margarine sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1952 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 375,968 children born in 1952 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Margarine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Margarines were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Margarine was born before 1935 — so the typical Margarine is around 90 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 36.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 63.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 7
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 36.6% of all recorded uses (30).
Is Margarine 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1931 (9)
- Years since peak
- 94
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.3% average annual change
Spellings of Margarine
Margarine is not the most common spelling — Margarita is, with 83.8% against Margarine's 0.17%.
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.
Margarine by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Margarine
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Margarine
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.