Margrethe

Girls' name

English equivalent of Margaret

Margrethe has been given to 27 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1916, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Margrethe, 1963

1 in 792,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Margrethe: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Margaret

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Margrethe means

Margrethe is a English equivalent of Margaret.

Origin, language, and formation

Margrethe is used in Danish and Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Margaret.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Danish, Margrethe is pronounced [mɑˈɡ̊ʁæːˀd̥ə].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 27 girls were recorded with the name Margrethe between 1913 and 1963. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1916; its best national rank was #3,515 in 1913.

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 Margrethe?

Margrethe had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1963, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1963: 1 in 792,000; 5 of 3,958,455 births
Among girls only: 1 in 385,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1963: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 548,760 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Margrethe 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 1963 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 548,760 children born in 1963 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Margrethe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Margrethes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Margrethe was born before 1916 — so the typical Margrethe is around 109 today.

Median birth year: 1916; About 109 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 59.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 40.7%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 11; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 59.3% of all recorded uses (16).

Is Margrethe 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 1916 (6)
Years since peak: 109; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,515; 1913

Spellings of Margrethe

Margrethe is not the most common spelling — Margret is, with 46.4% against Margrethe's 0.12%.

Margret46.4%10,068
Margarette28.4%6,164
Margarete11.0%2,376
Margrett6.3%1,371
Margrette3.9%850
Margretta3.9%837
Margrethe0.12%27

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.

Margrethe around the world

Where Margrethe 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
#364
in 2025
South Australia
1951–1983
#465
in 1983

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

Margrethe 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: #3,515; 1913
Peak year: 1916; 6 that year
First recorded: 1913
Last recorded: 1963
All-time count: 27
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Margrethe

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

Sibling names for Margrethe

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

Era Leatha Leone Artie Alpha Hettie Cecil Ona

For a brother

Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman Regis Sydney Gustave

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