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Margarite

Girls' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Margarite has been given to 1,920 babies in the U.S. since 1888. 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 1925, with 52 recorded.

Babies named Margarite, 2015

1 in 740,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Margarite: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Margarite means

Margarite is a given name.

The naming story behind Margarite

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Margarite in its glossary. The entry labels it feminine and points to printed page(s) 121.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Gr. pearl”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Margarite, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,920 girls were recorded with the name Margarite between 1888 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 52 in 1925; its best national rank was #958 in 1913.

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.

How common is Margarite?

Margarite had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only
1 in 357,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Margarite 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 2015 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 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Margarite. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Margarites were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Margarite was born before 1932 — so the typical Margarite is around 93 today.

Median birth year
1932
About 93 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
21.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
565
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1920s — 21.5% of all recorded uses (413).

Is Margarite 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 1925 (52)
Years since peak
100
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#958
1913

Spellings of Margarite

Margarite is not the most common spelling — Margaret is, with 89.2% against Margarite's 0.14%.

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 Margarite is used

Across 1910–2025, Margarite was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 458,495 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 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. Margarite has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Margarite around the world

Where Margarite 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
    1964–1979
    #523
    in 1979
  • South Australia
    1957–1957
    #581
    in 1957

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

Margarite 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
#958
1913
Peak year
1925
52 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
1,920
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Margarite

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

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Sibling names for Margarite

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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