Margert
Margert was last recorded in 1979, when 5 babies were given it; 796 Americans have been recorded with it between 1900 and 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Margert by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Margert?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,226, in 1979; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1925, the peak
Margert peaked in 1925, when 23 girls were given it, #1,824 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 5 | #11,226 | 3.1 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,976 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,848 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,368 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,763 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,352 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,718 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,496 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,107 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,242 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 10 | #4,535 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,131 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,930 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,757 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,651 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,508 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,924 | 8.5 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,427 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,132 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,499 | 6.1 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,428 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,866 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,005 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,042 | 7.2 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,584 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,106 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,785 | 8.2 |
| 1947 | 13 | #3,000 | 7.3 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,980 | 7.6 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,569 | 6.1 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,879 | 8.3 |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,406 | 10.8 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,751 | 8.9 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,823 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,668 | 9.6 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,848 | 17.3 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,523 | 10.9 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,269 | 13.2 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,112 | 14.4 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,389 | 12.4 |
| 1934 | 22 | #1,634 | 21.1 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,233 | 13.9 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,923 | 16.9 |
| 1931 | 23 | #1,621 | 21.6 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,379 | 12.4 |
| 1929 | 18 | #1,984 | 16.1 |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,154 | 14.7 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,498 | 11.7 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,317 | 13.5 |
| 1925 | 23 | #1,824 | 18.9 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,966 | 16.8 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,330 | 13.3 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,352 | 13.3 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,341 | 13.0 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,427 | 12.5 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,342 | 13.3 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,461 | 12.1 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,388 | 12.9 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,443 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,320 | 8.1 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,986 | 6.6 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,511 | 8.0 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,928 | 17.9 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,552 | 25.9 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,779 | 20.9 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,122 | 16.9 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,522 | 26.7 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,593 | 25.1 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,111 | 16.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Margert a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Margert has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Margert: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Margert, and how old are they?
An estimated 291 Americans named Margert and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (37% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 63 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 430 people named Margert (430 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 366 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 1,282,834 babies since 1880, Margert is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,457 babies recorded by SSA was a Margert (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Margert
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 Margert and names like it
- Compare Margert and MargaretBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMargert peaked in 1925.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Margert since 1910.
- The top names of 1925The year the most babies were named Margert.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Margert alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.