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Margarito

#5,138 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Margarito has been given to 4,887 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #5,138 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1928, with 85 recorded.

Babies named Margarito, 2025

1 in 174,000

Margarito over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Margarito: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Margarito means

Margarito is a given name.

The naming story behind Margarito

Wikidata records Margarito as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q43400475, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,887 boys were recorded with the name Margarito between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 85 in 1928; its best national rank was #689 in 1928.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,244 in 2020 to #5,138 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,198 in 2015 to #5,138 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.

How common is Margarito?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 89,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,138
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Margarito sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Margarito. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Margaritos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Margarito was born before 1955 — so the typical Margarito is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
14.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,806
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Choose a decade

1920s — 14.1% of all recorded uses (690).

Is Margarito 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
+2,424
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,106
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+60
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.06×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
22.4%
Peak was 1928 (85)
Years since peak
97
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#689
1928

Spellings of Margarito

Margarito is the most-used spelling, taking 56.6% of the 8,632 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Margarito is used

Across 1910–2025, Margarito was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 2,941 boys, against 1 in 11,748 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

034 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 2,941
  2. 2Texas1 in 5,000
  3. 3California1 in 25,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in 100,000
  5. 5Colorado1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Margarito has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Margarito

People whose public names include Margarito, 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.

Margarito by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,138
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,106
Best rank ever
#689
1928
Peak year
1928
85 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,887
Count in 2025
19

Names similar to Margarito

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

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Names with a curve like Margarito

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

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Sibling names for Margarito

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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