Margaretta — girls' name

What the Data Says About Margaretta

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,535 babies named Margaretta between 1880 and 2007, spanning 128 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Margaretta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2007. The name reached its historical peak in 1915, when 76 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Margaretta performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 475 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Margaretta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 572 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Margaretta in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Margaretta 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 2,535 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.