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Margreta

Girls' name

Pearl, through Margareta

Margreta has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1944. 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 1944, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Margreta, 1950

1 in 700,000

Margreta over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Margreta: meaning, origin, and history

Pearl, through Margareta

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Margreta means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Margreta is used in Faroese and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Margareta.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Margreta between 1944 and 1950. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1944; its best national rank was #5,007 in 1944.

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 Margreta?

Margreta 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 Margreta 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 Margreta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Margretas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Margreta was born before 1944 — so the typical Margreta is around 81 today.

Median birth year
1944
About 81 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
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1940s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Margreta 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
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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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1944 (5)
Years since peak
81
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#5,007
1944

Spellings of Margreta

Margreta is not the most common spelling — Margaret is, with 95.0% against Margreta's <0.01%.

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.

Margreta around the world

Where Margreta 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.

  • South Australia
    1958–1958
    #598
    in 1958

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

Margreta 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
#5,007
1944
Peak year
1944
5 that year
First recorded
1944
Last recorded
1950
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Margreta

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

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Sibling names for Margreta

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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