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Margaret
Pronounced /ˈmɑɹɡɹɪt/
Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1926 · #661
Origin
Ancient Greek
Also recorded for girls:2,303 in 2024 (#118)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- No boys were recorded as Margaret in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
- It peaked in 1926 with 91 babies, ranked #661.
- It first shows up in the records in 1881.
- 3,745 boys 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.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 1,210 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Silent: 1,189 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Boomers: 634 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 251 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 202 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 25 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 0 babies, 0.00 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.