Margarite
Margarite was last recorded in 2015, when 5 babies were given it; 1,920 Americans have been recorded with it between 1888 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Margarite by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Margarite?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,166, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
52 babies in 1925, the peak
Margarite peaked in 1925, when 52 girls were given it, #1,058 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #18,166 | 2.8 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,488 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,357 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,006 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,486 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,208 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,294 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,624 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,879 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,940 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (106)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 7 | #10,395 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,886 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,692 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,890 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,846 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,066 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,431 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,682 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,739 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,175 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,378 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,248 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,360 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,853 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,314 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,826 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,626 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,125 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,002 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,425 | 9.1 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,670 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,105 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,191 | 9.0 |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,139 | 8.8 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,375 | 7.6 |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,649 | 10.9 |
| 1960 | 23 | #2,552 | 11.4 |
| 1959 | 19 | #2,718 | 9.4 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,852 | 5.5 |
| 1957 | 19 | #2,698 | 9.3 |
| 1956 | 28 | #2,085 | 13.9 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,910 | 8.2 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,564 | 9.8 |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,955 | 14.9 |
| 1952 | 32 | #1,764 | 17.3 |
| 1951 | 27 | #1,906 | 15.0 |
| 1950 | 28 | #1,820 | 16.3 |
| 1949 | 23 | #2,040 | 13.4 |
| 1948 | 23 | #2,053 | 13.5 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,715 | 8.5 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,826 | 8.3 |
| 1945 | 16 | #2,201 | 12.2 |
| 1944 | 28 | #1,565 | 21.1 |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,048 | 13.6 |
| 1942 | 25 | #1,690 | 18.5 |
| 1941 | 26 | #1,558 | 21.5 |
| 1940 | 24 | #1,620 | 21.0 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,769 | 18.2 |
| 1938 | 23 | #1,627 | 20.8 |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,885 | 16.9 |
| 1936 | 22 | #1,625 | 21.1 |
| 1935 | 24 | #1,531 | 22.9 |
| 1934 | 27 | #1,432 | 25.9 |
| 1933 | 34 | #1,236 | 33.7 |
| 1932 | 27 | #1,475 | 25.3 |
| 1931 | 25 | #1,534 | 23.5 |
| 1930 | 37 | #1,242 | 32.9 |
| 1929 | 40 | #1,186 | 35.8 |
| 1928 | 35 | #1,302 | 30.3 |
| 1927 | 42 | #1,208 | 35.2 |
| 1926 | 26 | #1,647 | 21.9 |
| 1925 | 52 | #1,058 | 42.7 |
| 1924 | 47 | #1,146 | 37.6 |
| 1923 | 41 | #1,222 | 34.0 |
| 1922 | 39 | #1,262 | 32.5 |
| 1921 | 48 | #1,107 | 38.9 |
| 1920 | 43 | #1,165 | 35.9 |
| 1919 | 37 | #1,259 | 32.7 |
| 1918 | 47 | #1,070 | 40.6 |
| 1917 | 40 | #1,138 | 37.0 |
| 1916 | 43 | #1,076 | 41.2 |
| 1915 | 37 | #1,133 | 37.6 |
| 1914 | 35 | #1,017 | 46.0 |
| 1913 | 32 | #958 | 51.2 |
| 1912 | 22 | #1,134 | 39.4 |
| 1911 | 16 | #1,152 | 38.2 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,717 | 22.7 |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,341 | 31.7 |
| 1908 | 12 | #1,246 | 35.9 |
| 1907 | 12 | #1,188 | 37.7 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,121 | 16.9 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,837 | 20.6 |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,330 | 32.7 |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,274 | 34.4 |
| 1902 | 14 | #959 | 53.0 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,847 | 20.9 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,675 | 23.4 |
| 1899 | 12 | #961 | 51.5 |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,337 | 30.9 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,705 | 21.3 |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,375 | 29.4 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,738 | 21.4 |
| 1894 | 7 | #1,306 | 31.4 |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,137 | 37.6 |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,140 | 37.7 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,405 | 28.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Margarite a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Margarite has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 106 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Margarite: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Margarite, and how old are they?
An estimated 666 Americans named Margarite and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (35% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 54 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,036 people named Margarite (1,033 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 806 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% above 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 147,464 babies since 1880, Margarite is the fifth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 194 babies recorded by SSA was a Margarite (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marguerite | 94,123 | 71 | 1918 |
| Margarita | 40,418 | 104 | 1957 |
| Margarette | 6,164 | 12 | 1921 |
| Margarete | 2,376 | 7 | 1918 |
| Margarite | 1,920 | under 5 | 1925 |
| Margurite | 1,745 | under 5 | 1923 |
| Margareta | 494 | under 5 | 1927 |
| Marguarite | 224 | under 5 | 1922 |
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 Margarite
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 Margarite and names like it
- Compare Margarite and MargueriteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMargarite peaked in 1925.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Margarite since 1910.
- The top names of 1925The year the most babies were named Margarite.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Margarite alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.