Margo
Margo was given to 540 girls in 2025, #559 among girls’ names; 27,242 Americans have been recorded with it since 1905 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 21,800 Americans named Margo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 25 and 72.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Margo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Margo?
#559 among girls’ names, 2025
Margo rose from #1,277 in 2015 to #559 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.11 to 0.34 per 1,000.
720 babies in 1954, the peak
Margo peaked in 1954, when 720 babies were given it (715 girls, #315 among girls’ names). The 540 births of 2025 are 75% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 540 | #559 | 0.34 |
| 2024 | 556 | #546 | 0.34 |
| 2023 | 556 | #543 | 0.35 |
| 2022 | 481 | #617 | 0.29 |
| 2021 | 464 | #640 | 0.28 |
| 2020 | 356 | #765 | 0.22 |
| 2019 | 321 | #841 | 0.19 |
| 2018 | 271 | #976 | 0.16 |
| 2017 | 236 | #1,077 | 0.14 |
| 2016 | 254 | #1,044 | 0.14 |
Every recorded year (120)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 191 | #1,277 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 153 | #1,467 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 117 | #1,757 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 94 | #2,056 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 98 | #2,012 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 82 | #2,332 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 84 | #2,330 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 98 | #2,089 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 82 | #2,343 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 80 | #2,368 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 80 | #2,272 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 85 | #2,127 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 89 | #2,028 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 93 | #1,906 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 89 | #1,948 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 106 | #1,666 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 94 | #1,727 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 108 | #1,546 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 108 | #1,509 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 108 | #1,498 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 116 | #1,412 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 127 | #1,332 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 143 | #1,215 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 134 | #1,276 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 126 | #1,314 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 153 | #1,132 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 173 | #995 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 176 | #953 | 0.10 |
| 1987 | 148 | #1,047 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 137 | #1,089 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 147 | #1,028 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 147 | #985 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 194 | #802 | 0.12 |
| 1982 | 222 | #751 | 0.13 |
| 1981 | 233 | #714 | 0.14 |
| 1980 | 164 | #918 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 187 | #835 | 0.12 |
| 1978 | 176 | #843 | 0.11 |
| 1977 | 183 | #822 | 0.12 |
| 1976 | 175 | #798 | 0.12 |
| 1975 | 180 | #784 | 0.12 |
| 1974 | 215 | #686 | 0.15 |
| 1973 | 274 | #580 | 0.19 |
| 1972 | 294 | #563 | 0.19 |
| 1971 | 301 | #582 | 0.18 |
| 1970 | 286 | #608 | 0.16 |
| 1969 | 346 | #530 | 0.21 |
| 1968 | 335 | #525 | 0.20 |
| 1967 | 375 | #493 | 0.23 |
| 1966 | 371 | #486 | 0.22 |
| 1965 | 336 | #521 | 0.19 |
| 1964 | 410 | #478 | 0.22 |
| 1963 | 436 | #465 | 0.23 |
| 1962 | 464 | #445 | 0.24 |
| 1961 | 461 | #455 | 0.23 |
| 1960 | 422 | #479 | 0.21 |
| 1959 | 476 | #441 | 0.24 |
| 1958 | 469 | #438 | 0.23 |
| 1957 | 519 | #406 | 0.25 |
| 1956 | 512 | #399 | 0.26 |
| 1955 | 555 | #373 | 0.28 |
| 1954 | 715 | #315 | 0.37 |
| 1953 | 635 | #330 | 0.34 |
| 1952 | 677 | #311 | 0.37 |
| 1951 | 713 | #295 | 0.40 |
| 1950 | 615 | #313 | 0.36 |
| 1949 | 631 | #308 | 0.37 |
| 1948 | 488 | #352 | 0.29 |
| 1947 | 595 | #322 | 0.34 |
| 1946 | 482 | #339 | 0.31 |
| 1945 | 455 | #316 | 0.35 |
| 1944 | 434 | #329 | 0.33 |
| 1943 | 441 | #338 | 0.32 |
| 1942 | 487 | #311 | 0.36 |
| 1941 | 474 | #297 | 0.39 |
| 1940 | 304 | #381 | 0.27 |
| 1939 | 314 | #371 | 0.29 |
| 1938 | 316 | #367 | 0.29 |
| 1937 | 160 | #524 | 0.15 |
| 1936 | 115 | #617 | 0.11 |
| 1935 | 77 | #771 | 0.07 |
| 1934 | 43 | #1,069 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 47 | #1,016 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 45 | #1,062 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 31 | #1,328 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 61 | #939 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 37 | #1,234 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 30 | #1,451 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 29 | #1,543 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 29 | #1,527 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,677 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 29 | #1,589 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 32 | #1,446 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 30 | #1,527 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 32 | #1,462 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 30 | #1,494 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,833 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,853 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 21 | #1,749 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,089 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,037 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,870 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 19 | #1,337 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,076 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,889 | 0.02 |
| 1910 | 13 | #1,309 | 0.03 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,136 | 0.02 |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,506 | 0.03 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,865 | 0.02 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,126 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Margo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Margo has been given almost only to girls: 34 boys in 120 years of records.
Girls and boys named Margo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Margo, and how old are they?
21,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 80% of the 27,242 Americans ever recorded as Margo. The median Margo alive today is 57 years old; half are between 25 and 72.
The 2020 Census counted 20,948 people named Margo (20,812 women and girls, 136 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 20,464 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,670 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 7,890 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,880 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,420 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,450 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,470 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Margo born?
The states with the most babies named Margo are California, New York and Illinois, with 30% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2,680 | #727 | 1.1× |
| New York | 2,178 | #1,010 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 1,804 | #590 | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 1,589 | #279 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 1,336 | #976 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 1,247 | #409 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,103 | #448 | 0.7× |
| Minnesota | 706 | #298 | 1.2× |
| Indiana | 703 | #353 | 1.0× |
| Wisconsin | 631 | #337 | 1.0× |
Where Margo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Margo is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 1.7 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 Margo 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 139,938 babies since 1880, Margo is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 540 of their 557 babies (97%), the most given that year.
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 Margo
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1900-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Charolette | 3,536 |
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 Margo and names like it
- Compare Margo and MargieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sMargo peaked in 1954.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Margo since 1910.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Margo.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Margo alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.