Margita

Girls' name

Pearl, through Margareta

Margita has been given to 12 babies in the U.S. since 1983. 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 1983, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Margita, 1984

1 in 581,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Margita: meaning, origin, and history

Pearl, through Margareta

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Margita means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Margita is used in Latvian, Slovak and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Margareta.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Slovak, Margita is pronounced /marɡita/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12 girls were recorded with the name Margita between 1983 and 1984. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1983; its best national rank was #9,743 in 1983.

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 Margita?

Margita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1984, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1984: 1 in 581,000; 6 of 3,488,451 births
Among girls only: 1 in 281,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1984: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 403,003 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Margita 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 1984 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 403,003 children born in 1984 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Margita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Margitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Margita was born before 1983 — so the typical Margita is around 42 today.

Median birth year: 1983; About 42 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 12; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (12).

Is Margita 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 1983 (6)
Years since peak: 42; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #9,743; 1983

Spellings of Margita

Margita is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 52.9% against Margita's <0.01%.

Maria52.9%566,111
Marcia12.4%133,320
Margie9.9%106,004
Marisa4.5%48,707
Margarita3.8%40,219
Marina3.7%39,514
Margot2.4%25,568
Maritza2.2%23,153

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.

Margita around the world

Where Margita 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
2013–2013
#5,742
in 2013
South Australia
1966–1966
#658
in 1966

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Margita 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: #9,743; 1983
Peak year: 1983; 6 that year
First recorded: 1983
Last recorded: 1984
All-time count: 12
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Margita

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

Marvita Marqita Marcita Margurita Maryrita Mariquita Marchita Martita Marqurita Mariolita Marelys Mariamu Marieth Marlita Marnita Marsana Mariami Marziya Mariham Maryeli Markeita Marshel Markila Maricka

Sibling names for Margita

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

Afton Tanesha Adriane Laquita Thomas Holli Venessa Eboni

For a brother

Jerrod Jamaal Donnell Brenton Chauncey Leopoldo Whitney Jerod

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