Margarete
Margarete was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,699 among girls’ names; 2,376 Americans have been recorded with it since 1884 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Margarete by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Margarete mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Margarete is “a female given name, equivalent to English Margaret”
/marɡaˈreːtə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Margarete?
#12,699 among girls’ names, 2025
Margarete entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #12,699 in 2025.
74 babies in 1918, the peak
Margarete peaked in 1918, when 74 girls were given it, #836 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,699 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,764 | 4.9 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,842 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,646 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,038 | 3.9 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,727 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,297 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,149 | 4.2 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,148 | 5.5 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,391 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (121)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 8 | #11,005 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,104 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,157 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,274 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,528 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,216 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,623 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,481 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,915 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,691 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,932 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,447 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,353 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,754 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,574 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,670 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,559 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,850 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,756 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,074 | 5.6 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,174 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,975 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,635 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,310 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,054 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,950 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,892 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,009 | 5.5 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,812 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,106 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,213 | 9.1 |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,789 | 11.1 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,941 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,878 | 9.7 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,799 | 9.9 |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,950 | 8.9 |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,558 | 10.4 |
| 1958 | 22 | #2,486 | 10.9 |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,391 | 11.2 |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,507 | 10.5 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,796 | 8.7 |
| 1954 | 21 | #2,414 | 10.8 |
| 1953 | 24 | #2,158 | 12.8 |
| 1952 | 21 | #2,304 | 11.3 |
| 1951 | 24 | #2,045 | 13.3 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,309 | 11.1 |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,109 | 12.9 |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,386 | 10.6 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,415 | 10.2 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,554 | 9.5 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,554 | 9.9 |
| 1944 | 19 | #2,004 | 14.3 |
| 1943 | 32 | #1,482 | 22.9 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,743 | 17.8 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,854 | 16.6 |
| 1940 | 29 | #1,429 | 25.4 |
| 1939 | 22 | #1,663 | 20.1 |
| 1938 | 20 | #1,786 | 18.1 |
| 1937 | 31 | #1,322 | 29.1 |
| 1936 | 23 | #1,576 | 22.1 |
| 1935 | 30 | #1,343 | 28.6 |
| 1934 | 27 | #1,431 | 25.9 |
| 1933 | 37 | #1,171 | 36.7 |
| 1932 | 30 | #1,368 | 28.1 |
| 1931 | 36 | #1,210 | 33.8 |
| 1930 | 50 | #1,048 | 44.4 |
| 1929 | 40 | #1,185 | 35.8 |
| 1928 | 50 | #1,065 | 43.4 |
| 1927 | 48 | #1,105 | 40.3 |
| 1926 | 46 | #1,124 | 38.8 |
| 1925 | 50 | #1,085 | 41.1 |
| 1924 | 57 | #1,024 | 45.6 |
| 1923 | 49 | #1,096 | 40.6 |
| 1922 | 65 | #914 | 54.1 |
| 1921 | 51 | #1,068 | 41.4 |
| 1920 | 59 | #954 | 49.2 |
| 1919 | 60 | #912 | 53.1 |
| 1918 | 74 | #836 | 63.9 |
| 1917 | 59 | #899 | 54.6 |
| 1916 | 54 | #935 | 51.7 |
| 1915 | 64 | #822 | 65.1 |
| 1914 | 36 | #997 | 47.3 |
| 1913 | 42 | #816 | 67.2 |
| 1912 | 23 | #1,102 | 41.2 |
| 1911 | 21 | #974 | 50.2 |
| 1910 | 15 | #1,194 | 37.8 |
| 1909 | 16 | #1,037 | 46.1 |
| 1908 | 18 | #957 | 53.8 |
| 1907 | 13 | #1,120 | 40.8 |
| 1906 | 14 | #1,028 | 47.4 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,637 | 24.0 |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,221 | 36.3 |
| 1903 | 20 | #780 | 76.3 |
| 1902 | 17 | #860 | 64.4 |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,292 | 33.4 |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,386 | 30.0 |
| 1899 | 12 | #958 | 51.5 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,856 | 19.3 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,342 | 29.9 |
| 1896 | 15 | #862 | 63.0 |
| 1895 | 11 | #1,030 | 47.1 |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,040 | 44.9 |
| 1893 | 7 | #1,251 | 32.9 |
| 1892 | 7 | #1,230 | 33.0 |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,063 | 42.0 |
| 1889 | 8 | #1,000 | 44.9 |
| 1888 | 12 | #776 | 67.2 |
| 1887 | 7 | #1,001 | 48.0 |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,059 | 41.5 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,146 | 37.6 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,109 | 38.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Margarete a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Margarete has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 121 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Margarete: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Margarete, and how old are they?
An estimated 753 Americans named Margarete and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (32% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 42 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,201 people named Margarete (2,200 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 886 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 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 56,502 babies since 1880, Margarete is the fourth most given (4.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 123 babies (5.7%), the third most given that year.
| 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 |
| Margurite | 1,745 | under 5 | 1923 |
| Margrette | 850 | under 5 | 1923 |
| Margareta | 494 | under 5 | 1927 |
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 Margarete
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 Margarete and names like it
- Compare Margarete and MargaritaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sMargarete peaked in 1918.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Margarete since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Margarete: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Margarete.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Margarete alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.