Margherita

Girls' name

Form of Margaret

Margherita has been given to 1,155 babies in the U.S. since 1892. 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 1926, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Margherita, 2022

1 in 564,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Margherita: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Margaret

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Margherita means

Margherita is a form of Margaret.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Margherita is used in Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /mar.ɡe.ˈriː.ta/ for Margherita.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Margherita → Margaret. The family’s meaning is “pearl”, recorded in English with the source elements margarítēs.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Margaret.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Margherita is pronounced /mar.ɡeˈri.ta/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,155 girls were recorded with the name Margherita between 1892 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 25 in 1926; its best national rank was #1,338 in 1898.

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 Margherita?

Margherita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022: 1 in 564,000; 6 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only: 1 in 273,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 391,139 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Margherita 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 2022 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 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Margherita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Margheritas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Margherita was born before 1951 — so the typical Margherita is around 74 today.

Median birth year: 1951; About 74 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 16.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 5.3%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 593; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 16.2% of all recorded uses (187).

Is Margherita 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 1926 (25)
Years since peak: 99; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 44.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,338; 1898

Spellings of Margherita

Margherita is not the most common spelling — Marguerite is, with 68.8% against Margherita's 0.84%.

Marguerite68.8%94,022
Margarita29.4%40,219
Marguerita0.96%1,308
Margherita0.84%1,155

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 Margherita is used

Across 1910–2025, Margherita was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 69,500 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in 50,000
2Pennsylvania1 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. Margherita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Margherita around the world

Where Margherita 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
1996–2025
#4,867
in 2025
France
1925–2020
#7,433
in 2020
South Australia
1944–2010
#801
in 2010

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

Margherita 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: #1,338; 1898
Peak year: 1926; 25 that year
First recorded: 1892
Last recorded: 2022
All-time count: 1,155
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Margherita

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

Sibling names for Margherita

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

Berta Delma Allene Darline Concepcion Easter Leatrice Pearline

For a brother

Jewel Napoleon Raymon Domenick Hosea Rollin Wilburn Wilford

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