Margrete

Girls' name

Form of Margaret

Margrete has been given to 217 babies in the U.S. since 1889. 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 1917, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Margrete, 1954

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Margrete: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Margaret

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Margrete means

Margrete is a form of Margaret.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Margrete is used in Norwegian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Margrete is used in Danish and Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Margaret and Margrethe.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Danish, Margrete is pronounced [mɑˈɡ̊ʁæːˀd̥ə].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 217 girls were recorded with the name Margrete between 1889 and 1954. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1917; its best national rank was #1,223 in 1889.

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 Margrete?

Margrete had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1954, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1954: 1 in 663,000; 6 of 3,979,464 births
Among girls only: 1 in 324,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1954: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 459,727 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Margrete 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 1954 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 459,727 children born in 1954 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Margrete. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Margretes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Margrete was born before 1921 — so the typical Margrete is around 104 today.

Median birth year: 1921; About 104 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 38.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 17.5%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 6; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 38.7% of all recorded uses (84).

Is Margrete 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 1917 (16)
Years since peak: 108; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 39.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,223; 1889

Spellings of Margrete

Margrete is not the most common spelling — Margaret is, with 97.4% against Margrete's 0.02%.

Margaret97.4%1,264,774
Margret0.78%10,068
Margarette0.47%6,164
Margarett0.38%4,933
Margarete0.18%2,376
Margarite0.15%1,920
Margurite0.13%1,745
Margene0.13%1,687

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.

Margrete around the world

Where Margrete 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
1880–2023
#489
in 2023

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Margrete 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: #1,223; 1889
Peak year: 1917; 16 that year
First recorded: 1889
Last recorded: 1954
All-time count: 217
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Margrete

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

Margarete Margurete Marguriete Marianny Margalit Marlette Marciana Marliyah Marializ Mariyana Markella Marielys Marieliz Mariposa Marlaysia Marionna Marieme Maryuri Marialena Marabella Maryori Marlayah Marabelle Marieli

Sibling names for Margrete

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

Albina Nelle Orpha Antonette Harriette Winnifred Johnie Dovie

For a brother

Regis Rosario Lyman Winfield Dorsey Granville Abe Isadore

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