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Margrit

Girls' name

Form of Margaret

Margrit has been given to 61 babies in the U.S. since 1952. 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 1964, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Margrit, 2017

1 in 715,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Margrit: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Margaret

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Margrit means

Margrit is a form of Margaret.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Margrit is used in German.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈmaʁ.ɡʁɪt/ for Margrit.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Margaret.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 61 girls were recorded with the name Margrit between 1952 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1964; its best national rank was #5,134 in 1956.

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 Margrit?

Margrit had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 715,000
5 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
495,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Margrit 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 2017 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 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Margrit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Margrits were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Margrit was born before 1960 — so the typical Margrit is around 65 today.

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
49.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
61
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1950s — 49.2% of all recorded uses (30).

Is Margrit 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1964 (8)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,134
1956

Spellings of Margrit

Margrit is not the most common spelling — Margaret is, with 86.7% against Margrit'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.

Margrit 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
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Best rank ever
#5,134
1956
Peak year
1964
8 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
61
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Margrit

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

MargaritMarlaniMarianiMaritMariellMaryeliMarianyMarialyMaripazMarihamMarsaliMarittaMariellyMarziyaMarlayaMaryelMareyaMarlayahMaryoriMarliaMaryuriMariemeMarveenMarkiah

Sibling names for Margrit

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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