Margette

Girls' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Margette has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1950. 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 1950, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Margette, 1950

1 in 700,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Margette: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

coinages

What Margette means

Margette is a modern given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Margette is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Margette is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Margette between 1950 and 1950. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1950; its best national rank was #5,808 in 1950.

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 Margette?

Margette had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1950, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1950: 1 in 700,000; 5 of 3,502,380 births
Among girls only: 1 in 343,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1950: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 485,534 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Margette 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 1950 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 485,534 children born in 1950 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Margette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Margettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Margette was born before 1950 — so the typical Margette is around 75 today.

Median birth year: 1950; About 75 years old
Biggest decade: 1950s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1950s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Margette 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 1950 (5)
Years since peak: 75; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #5,808; 1950

Spellings of Margette

Margette is not the most common spelling — Marietta is, with 35.0% against Margette's 0.01%.

Marietta35.0%15,055
Arlette18.8%8,109
Margarette14.3%6,164
Margene3.9%1,687
Margrett3.2%1,371
Maryetta2.7%1,147
Arnette2.5%1,055
Mariette2.4%1,052

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.

Margette 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: #5,808; 1950
Peak year: 1950; 5 that year
First recorded: 1950
Last recorded: 1950
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Margette

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

Markette Marquitte Marzette Margerette Marette Maryette Margaritte Marinette Marlette Margueriette Mariami Marnette Marsana Marylena Margeree Marguery Marvilla Marguree Marclene Marqueen Marnella Maridean Marylean Marlynne

Sibling names for Margette

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

Roseanna Roseanne Kathlyn Randy Nona Oralia Ilene Karon

For a brother

Williams Rogers Ivory Artis Donn Lanny Val Felton

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