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Margaret
Pronounced /ˈmɑɹɡɹɪt/
Rank in 2024
#118
Born in 2024
2,303
Peak year
1921 · #4
Origin
Ancient Greek
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 2,303 girls were named Margaret, about 1 in every 700.
- It peaked in 1921 with 28,468 babies, ranked #4.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 1,262,307 girls have been named Margaret since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Margaret per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 21.9Greatest1901–27
- 14.2Silent1928–45
- 7.7Boomers1946–64
- 2.6Gen X1965–80
- 1.8Millennials1981–96
- 1.3Gen Z1997–12
- 1.3Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 447,353 babies, 21.86 per 1,000. Silent: 293,340 babies, 14.20 per 1,000. Boomers: 276,548 babies, 7.72 per 1,000. Gen X: 66,273 babies, 2.59 per 1,000. Millennials: 49,897 babies, 1.77 per 1,000. Gen Z: 37,982 babies, 1.31 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 25,874 babies, 1.27 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From the name of 3rd century Saint Margaret the Virgin, from Middle English Margaret, from Old French Margaret (French Marguerite), from Latin Margarita, from Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs, “pearl”), ultimately from an Indo-Iranian source. The same source, through folk etymology, has produced Old English meregrot (“pearl”, literally “stone or pebble of the sea”), related to Old Saxon merigrita, merigriota (“pearl”), Old High German merigrioz, equivalent to mer- + groat.
- A female given name from Ancient Greek.
- Origin
- Ancient Greek
- Say it
- /ˈmɑɹɡɹɪt/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Margaret, CC BY-SA 4.0.