Margareta
Margareta was last recorded in 2021, when 8 babies were given it; 494 Americans have been recorded with it between 1898 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Margareta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Margareta mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Margareta is “a female given name, variant of Margaret.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Margareta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,793, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1927, the peak
Margareta peaked in 1927, when 17 girls were given it, #2,218 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 8 | #11,793 | 4.9 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,252 | 2.9 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,575 | 2.8 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,737 | 3.3 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,273 | 4.0 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,423 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,611 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,737 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,173 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,216 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 6 | #8,297 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,313 | 5.3 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,624 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,908 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,705 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,495 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,724 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,701 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,398 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,759 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,431 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,755 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,497 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,984 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,088 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,194 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,699 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,018 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,514 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,865 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,089 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,202 | 3.3 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,103 | 7.0 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,086 | 4.7 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,411 | 3.2 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,886 | 5.4 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,089 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,246 | 5.0 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,649 | 6.4 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,742 | 4.5 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,592 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,119 | 5.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,623 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,465 | 7.5 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,171 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,792 | 9.8 |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,061 | 9.0 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,714 | 10.4 |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,218 | 14.3 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,439 | 7.6 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,275 | 8.2 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,878 | 6.4 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,543 | 7.5 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,559 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,607 | 4.1 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,506 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,594 | 11.5 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,160 | 8.6 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,952 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,166 | 8.6 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,702 | 5.1 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,705 | 11.2 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,263 | 9.0 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,371 | 14.3 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,623 | 23.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Margareta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Margareta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Margareta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Margareta, and how old are they?
An estimated 242 Americans named Margareta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (49% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 52 and 72. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,415 people named Margareta (1,408 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 268 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 54,961 babies since 1880, Margareta is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 123 babies recorded by SSA was a Margareta (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Margarita | 40,418 | 104 | 1957 |
| Margarette | 6,164 | 12 | 1921 |
| Margaretta | 2,535 | under 5 | 1915 |
| Margarete | 2,376 | 7 | 1918 |
| Margarite | 1,920 | under 5 | 1925 |
| Margretta | 837 | under 5 | 1921 |
| Margareta | 494 | under 5 | 1927 |
| Margrete | 217 | under 5 | 1917 |
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Margareta
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Margareta and names like it
- Compare Margareta and MargaritaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMargareta peaked in 1927.
- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Margareta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Margareta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.