Margherita
Margherita was last recorded in 2022, when 6 babies were given it; 1,155 Americans have been recorded with it between 1892 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Margherita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Margherita mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Margherita is “a female given name, equivalent to English Margaret; Daisy”
/mar.ɡeˈri.ta/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Margherita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,673, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1926, the peak
Margherita peaked in 1926, when 25 girls were given it, #1,696 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | #14,673 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,036 | 6.1 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,110 | 3.0 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,171 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,190 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,667 | 3.8 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,672 | 5.0 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,743 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,772 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,923 | 2.9 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 7 | #11,295 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,809 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,726 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,751 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,340 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,396 | 3.8 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,406 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,189 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,891 | 4.1 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,399 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,240 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,453 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,160 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,493 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,715 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,343 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,379 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,364 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,960 | 10.9 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,498 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,983 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,879 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,976 | 8.6 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,549 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,253 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 25 | #2,472 | 15.1 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,862 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 21 | #2,720 | 11.9 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,842 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,169 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,376 | 7.6 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,155 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,055 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 19 | #2,719 | 9.4 |
| 1958 | 16 | #3,041 | 8.0 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,842 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,071 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,387 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,619 | 5.7 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,769 | 8.5 |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,470 | 10.2 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,408 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,848 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,107 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,459 | 10.0 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,165 | 6.8 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,827 | 8.3 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,931 | 5.3 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,649 | 9.3 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,129 | 7.4 |
| 1941 | 16 | #2,151 | 13.2 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,786 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,853 | 9.1 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,680 | 10.0 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,521 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,631 | 10.6 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,517 | 11.5 |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,031 | 8.9 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,187 | 8.4 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,137 | 8.5 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,507 | 11.5 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,674 | 10.7 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,254 | 13.9 |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,803 | 19.3 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,696 | 21.1 |
| 1925 | 22 | #1,876 | 18.1 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,274 | 13.6 |
| 1923 | 19 | #2,065 | 15.7 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,244 | 14.2 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,342 | 13.0 |
| 1920 | 20 | #1,991 | 16.7 |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,898 | 17.7 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,617 | 11.2 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,816 | 18.5 |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,088 | 15.3 |
| 1915 | 21 | #1,659 | 21.3 |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,085 | 15.8 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,576 | 24.0 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,841 | 10.8 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,739 | 21.5 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,414 | 14.4 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,780 | 20.9 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,591 | 25.1 |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,508 | 27.1 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,125 | 17.1 |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,338 | 30.9 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,582 | 23.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Margherita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Margherita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 97 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Margherita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Margherita, and how old are they?
An estimated 618 Americans named Margherita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (54% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 44 and 68. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,307 people named Margherita (1,306 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 668 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times 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).
Where are babies named Margherita born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 301 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Margherita is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Margherita is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 3.2 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 Margherita 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 137,082 babies since 1880, Margherita is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 175 babies recorded by SSA was a Margherita (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 |
| Marguerita | 1,308 | under 5 | 1961 |
| Margherita | 1,155 | under 5 | 1926 |
| Margerite | 78 | under 5 | 1920 |
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 Margherita
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 Margherita and names like it
- Compare Margherita and MargueriteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMargherita peaked in 1926.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Margherita since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Margherita: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1926The year the most babies were named Margherita.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Margherita alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.