Margalit — #8577 US girls' name
169 babies named Margalit in U.S. Social Security records since 1985, with the highest year being 2022. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 51% of names given to girls today.
32% of everyone ever named Margalit was born in this single decade.
12 babies were named Margalit in 2022 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Margalit
The Social Security Administration has registered 169 babies named Margalit between 1985 and 2024, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Margalit currently holds the #8577 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 12 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Margalit performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 54 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Margalit shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Margalit in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Margalit in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 169 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Margalit at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Margalit popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1985
- Peak year (2022)
- 12
- Annual births at peak — across 40 years of records
Currently ranks #8577 among girls.
169 total births across 40 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2022 with 12 births in a single year.
Margalit by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2020s
- 54 births that decade — 32% of Margalit's all-time total
Margalit decade highlights
- Peak decade 54 births
- Runner-up 52 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2020s was Margalit's strongest decade
54 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 32% of all-time use.
Margalit by state
Where Margalit concentrates geographically — total births since 1985
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 5 | 3.0% |
5 of 169 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 3.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 3.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1985–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.