Girls' name · since 1911
Margareth
Margareth has 301 recorded births since 1911 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2024 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #15,875 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,502 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 301
- born since 1911
- 2020s
- peak decade
Margareth currently ranks #9502 among girls' names in America, with 301 babies recorded since 1911.
Margareth has 301 recorded births among girls since 1911, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #9502 as of the latest data, more common than 45% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1911 to 2025.
- #15,875 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #9,502 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 301 born since 1911
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Margareth ranks #15,875 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #9,502 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 301 born since 1911, peaking in the 2020s.
- #15,875 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,502 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 301
- born since 1911
- 2020s
- peak decade
Margareth's 301 recorded births place it above 78.03% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Margareth compares
301 45th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Margareth's all-time total is 20% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Margareth | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 301 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 21 | 21 | 19,840 |
Margareth's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Margareth splits its recorded history at 1991: 59% of all births land in the more recent half, 41% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1911 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2024 peak of 21 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Margareth popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1911–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 21
- Annual births at peak, across 115 years of records
Margareth by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (77 births, 26% of the file).
2020s was Margareth's strongest decade.
77 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 26% of all-time use.
Margareth births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s 30
1910s
30 births
- 1920s
1920s
56 births
- 1930s 10
1930s
10 births
- 1960s 16
1960s
16 births
- 1970s 6
1970s
6 births
- 1990s 25
1990s
25 births
- 2000s
2000s
34 births
- 2010s
2010s
47 births
- 2020s
2020s
77 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 77 births (26% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1911–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Margareth draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.