Margarett
Margarett was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,700 among girls’ names; 4,933 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,790 Americans named Margarett and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (36% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 61 and 81.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Margarett by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Margarett mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Margarett is “a female given name from Ancient Greek.”
Rare non-standard spelling of Margaret.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Margarett?
#12,700 among girls’ names, 2025
Margarett rose from #18,165 in 2015 to #12,700 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 4.4 per million.
117 babies in 1922, the peak
Margarett peaked in 1922, when 117 girls were given it, #676 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,700 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,806 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,967 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,910 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,498 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,165 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,949 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,134 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,728 | 3.2 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,387 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (128)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 8 | #12,567 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,410 | 5.4 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,658 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,310 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,755 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,630 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,158 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,275 | 4.0 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,303 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,076 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,338 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,693 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,920 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,752 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,149 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,108 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,133 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,285 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,664 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,452 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,594 | 6.0 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,409 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,342 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,264 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,801 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,507 | 12.9 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,576 | 12.3 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,822 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,325 | 12.0 |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,271 | 11.4 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,970 | 12.4 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,402 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 19 | #2,927 | 11.5 |
| 1966 | 31 | #2,133 | 18.3 |
| 1965 | 23 | #2,580 | 13.0 |
| 1964 | 34 | #2,059 | 17.9 |
| 1963 | 19 | #2,923 | 9.9 |
| 1962 | 32 | #2,098 | 16.3 |
| 1961 | 32 | #2,098 | 15.9 |
| 1960 | 46 | #1,664 | 22.8 |
| 1959 | 38 | #1,809 | 18.8 |
| 1958 | 42 | #1,669 | 20.9 |
| 1957 | 56 | #1,415 | 27.4 |
| 1956 | 51 | #1,498 | 25.4 |
| 1955 | 57 | #1,343 | 29.2 |
| 1954 | 61 | #1,269 | 31.4 |
| 1953 | 54 | #1,327 | 28.7 |
| 1952 | 70 | #1,133 | 37.7 |
| 1951 | 67 | #1,147 | 37.2 |
| 1950 | 95 | #914 | 55.5 |
| 1949 | 83 | #989 | 48.5 |
| 1948 | 102 | #864 | 60.1 |
| 1947 | 99 | #888 | 55.8 |
| 1946 | 111 | #782 | 70.6 |
| 1945 | 87 | #814 | 66.6 |
| 1944 | 108 | #730 | 81.4 |
| 1943 | 101 | #776 | 72.4 |
| 1942 | 106 | #728 | 78.5 |
| 1941 | 83 | #793 | 68.7 |
| 1940 | 80 | #791 | 70.0 |
| 1939 | 90 | #720 | 82.1 |
| 1938 | 81 | #781 | 73.4 |
| 1937 | 69 | #830 | 64.8 |
| 1936 | 62 | #866 | 59.6 |
| 1935 | 90 | #709 | 85.8 |
| 1934 | 81 | #740 | 77.6 |
| 1933 | 80 | #740 | 79.4 |
| 1932 | 101 | #673 | 94.6 |
| 1931 | 91 | #704 | 85.5 |
| 1930 | 90 | #742 | 79.9 |
| 1929 | 87 | #755 | 77.9 |
| 1928 | 107 | #677 | 92.8 |
| 1927 | 114 | #680 | 95.6 |
| 1926 | 92 | #754 | 77.6 |
| 1925 | 109 | #709 | 89.5 |
| 1924 | 116 | #690 | 92.9 |
| 1923 | 113 | #691 | 93.7 |
| 1922 | 117 | #676 | 97.4 |
| 1921 | 103 | #725 | 83.5 |
| 1920 | 114 | #681 | 95.1 |
| 1919 | 92 | #731 | 81.4 |
| 1918 | 88 | #765 | 76.0 |
| 1917 | 82 | #765 | 75.8 |
| 1916 | 58 | #889 | 55.5 |
| 1915 | 55 | #888 | 55.9 |
| 1914 | 56 | #775 | 73.5 |
| 1913 | 41 | #827 | 65.6 |
| 1912 | 24 | #1,068 | 43.0 |
| 1911 | 22 | #949 | 52.6 |
| 1910 | 24 | #888 | 60.5 |
| 1909 | 26 | #807 | 74.9 |
| 1908 | 15 | #1,073 | 44.9 |
| 1907 | 15 | #1,023 | 47.1 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,280 | 33.9 |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,492 | 27.4 |
| 1904 | 14 | #986 | 50.8 |
| 1903 | 13 | #1,010 | 49.6 |
| 1902 | 16 | #893 | 60.6 |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,293 | 33.4 |
| 1900 | 21 | #820 | 70.1 |
| 1899 | 14 | #897 | 60.1 |
| 1898 | 11 | #1,078 | 42.5 |
| 1897 | 12 | #964 | 51.2 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,520 | 25.2 |
| 1895 | 10 | #1,097 | 42.8 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,433 | 26.9 |
| 1893 | 9 | #1,064 | 42.3 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,387 | 28.3 |
| 1891 | 12 | #825 | 64.7 |
| 1889 | 10 | #880 | 56.1 |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,101 | 39.2 |
| 1887 | 7 | #1,002 | 48.0 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,215 | 34.6 |
| 1884 | 6 | #988 | 46.5 |
| 1883 | 7 | #795 | 62.3 |
| 1882 | 5 | #989 | 46.4 |
| 1881 | 6 | #793 | 65.3 |
| 1880 | 5 | #902 | 54.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Margarett a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Margarett has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 128 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Margarett: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Margarett, and how old are they?
1,790 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 36% of the 4,933 Americans ever recorded as Margarett. The median Margarett alive today is 74 years old; half are between 61 and 81.
The 2020 Census counted 2,168 people named Margarett (2,163 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,212 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 475 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 853 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 245 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 105 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 67 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 38 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Margarett born?
The states with the most babies named Margarett are Texas, Alabama and Tennessee, with 41% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama and Tennessee are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 443 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Alabama | 253 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Tennessee | 233 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Kentucky | 218 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Georgia | 208 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Mississippi | 172 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Arkansas | 154 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Virginia | 119 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 107 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Oklahoma | 90 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Margarett is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Margarett is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1910 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Margarett with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,286,941 babies since 1880, Margarett is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 2,464 babies (<1%), again the third most given.
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 Margarett
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 Margarett and names like it
- Compare Margarett and MargaretBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMargarett peaked in 1922.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Margarett since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Margarett: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Margarett.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Margarett alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.