Margherita — girls' name

What the Data Says About Margherita

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,155 babies named Margherita between 1892 and 2022, spanning 131 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Margherita currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1926, when 25 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Margherita performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 187 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Margherita shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 301 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Margherita in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Margherita 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 1,155 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.