Margit

Girls' name

Pearl, through Margareta

Margit has been given to 672 babies in the U.S. since 1908. 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 1959, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Margit, 1993

1 in 471,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Margit: meaning, origin, and history

Pearl, through Margareta

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Margit means

Margit belongs to the name family reached through Margit → Margit → Margareta. Its meaning is “pearl”.

Origin, language, and formation

Margit is used in Danish, Estonian, Faroese, German, Hungarian, Norwegian and Swedish.

Margit comes through Swedish Margit.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Margaret, Margareta and Margit.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hungarian, Margit is pronounced [ˈmɒrɡit].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 672 girls were recorded with the name Margit between 1908 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1959; its best national rank was #2,014 in 1908.

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 Margit?

Margit had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1993: 1 in 471,000; 8 of 3,768,729 births
Among girls only: 1 in 226,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1993: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 326,537 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Margit 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 1993 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 326,537 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Margit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Margits were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Margit was born before 1953 — so the typical Margit is around 72 today.

Median birth year: 1953; About 72 years old
Biggest decade: 1960s; 20.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 18.3%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 374; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1960s — 20.4% of all recorded uses (137).

Is Margit 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 1959 (20)
Years since peak: 66; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 32.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,014; 1908

Spellings of Margit

Margit is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 34.5% against Margit's 0.04%.

Maria34.5%566,111
Marie32.9%540,077
Marcia8.1%133,320
Maggie7.5%123,078
Margie6.5%106,004
Margo1.7%27,208
Margot1.6%25,568
Mari1.0%16,579

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 Margit is used

Across 1910–2025, Margit was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,455,707 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 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. Margit has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Margit around the world

Where Margit 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.

Norway
1880–2025
#350
in 2025
South Australia
1952–1980
#440
in 1980

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

Margit 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: #2,014; 1908
Peak year: 1959; 20 that year
First recorded: 1908
Last recorded: 1993
All-time count: 672
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Margit

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

Marlei Marily Maraya Marine Mareli Martie Marwah Marena Mariko Maryum Marleni Marea Maryama Maryan Maryana Markie Marlin Marjan Marit Marilla Marnita Marelyn Marlow Maram

Sibling names for Margit

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

Andra Tamela Robbin Jannette Joellen Gerri Debby Cathie

For a brother

Curtiss Russ Nicky Dwain Stan Lindsay Cliff Von

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