Margret
Margret was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,842 among girls’ names; 10,068 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,100 Americans named Margret and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (41% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 42 and 75.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Margret by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Margret mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Margret is “a female given name, variant of Margaret.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Margret?
#5,842 among girls’ names, 2025
Margret rose from #8,757 in 2015 to #5,842 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.3 to 13.1 per million.
214 babies in 1921, the peak
Margret peaked in 1921, when 214 girls were given it, #472 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,842 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,123 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,813 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,911 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,037 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,247 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,912 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,437 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,142 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,851 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,757 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,895 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,614 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,344 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,020 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,398 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,233 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,619 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,348 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,150 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,375 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,484 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,080 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,577 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,177 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,702 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,396 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,050 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 37 | #3,200 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,894 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,544 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,143 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 38 | #3,078 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 50 | #2,531 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,287 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 38 | #2,989 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 42 | #2,692 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,678 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,466 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,510 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,905 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 48 | #2,102 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 37 | #2,496 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,875 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 39 | #2,473 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,516 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,509 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 35 | #2,498 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 52 | #1,913 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 47 | #1,923 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 56 | #1,700 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 51 | #1,764 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 58 | #1,601 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 55 | #1,647 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 50 | #1,790 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 63 | #1,554 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 64 | #1,474 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 72 | #1,306 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 79 | #1,200 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 88 | #1,132 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 70 | #1,298 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 102 | #1,080 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 92 | #1,145 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 91 | #1,147 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 91 | #1,159 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 83 | #1,193 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 72 | #1,267 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 95 | #1,075 | 0.05 |
| 1957 | 87 | #1,129 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 99 | #1,030 | 0.05 |
| 1955 | 100 | #998 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 113 | #905 | 0.06 |
| 1953 | 124 | #832 | 0.07 |
| 1952 | 128 | #802 | 0.07 |
| 1951 | 105 | #879 | 0.06 |
| 1950 | 131 | #756 | 0.08 |
| 1949 | 143 | #710 | 0.08 |
| 1948 | 108 | #841 | 0.06 |
| 1947 | 122 | #784 | 0.07 |
| 1946 | 105 | #807 | 0.07 |
| 1945 | 85 | #820 | 0.07 |
| 1944 | 97 | #775 | 0.07 |
| 1943 | 108 | #749 | 0.08 |
| 1942 | 104 | #741 | 0.08 |
| 1941 | 87 | #775 | 0.07 |
| 1940 | 102 | #691 | 0.09 |
| 1939 | 107 | #658 | 0.10 |
| 1938 | 110 | #653 | 0.10 |
| 1937 | 123 | #608 | 0.12 |
| 1936 | 81 | #746 | 0.08 |
| 1935 | 121 | #591 | 0.12 |
| 1934 | 113 | #626 | 0.11 |
| 1933 | 122 | #583 | 0.12 |
| 1932 | 143 | #548 | 0.13 |
| 1931 | 136 | #565 | 0.13 |
| 1930 | 181 | #496 | 0.16 |
| 1929 | 153 | #555 | 0.14 |
| 1928 | 163 | #548 | 0.14 |
| 1927 | 199 | #496 | 0.17 |
| 1926 | 194 | #502 | 0.16 |
| 1925 | 172 | #549 | 0.14 |
| 1924 | 196 | #507 | 0.16 |
| 1923 | 177 | #538 | 0.15 |
| 1922 | 198 | #493 | 0.16 |
| 1921 | 214 | #472 | 0.17 |
| 1920 | 184 | #517 | 0.15 |
| 1919 | 177 | #510 | 0.16 |
| 1918 | 199 | #480 | 0.17 |
| 1917 | 168 | #513 | 0.16 |
| 1916 | 162 | #514 | 0.16 |
| 1915 | 111 | #625 | 0.11 |
| 1914 | 119 | #512 | 0.16 |
| 1913 | 84 | #560 | 0.13 |
| 1912 | 90 | #509 | 0.16 |
| 1911 | 59 | #553 | 0.14 |
| 1910 | 67 | #499 | 0.17 |
| 1909 | 44 | #585 | 0.13 |
| 1908 | 56 | #485 | 0.17 |
| 1907 | 51 | #503 | 0.16 |
| 1906 | 47 | #507 | 0.16 |
| 1905 | 51 | #480 | 0.17 |
| 1904 | 37 | #554 | 0.13 |
| 1903 | 37 | #537 | 0.14 |
| 1902 | 33 | #579 | 0.12 |
| 1901 | 32 | #543 | 0.13 |
| 1900 | 49 | #485 | 0.16 |
| 1899 | 33 | #521 | 0.14 |
| 1898 | 34 | #553 | 0.13 |
| 1897 | 30 | #549 | 0.13 |
| 1896 | 39 | #466 | 0.16 |
| 1895 | 36 | #490 | 0.15 |
| 1894 | 30 | #531 | 0.13 |
| 1893 | 31 | #498 | 0.15 |
| 1892 | 33 | #475 | 0.16 |
| 1891 | 39 | #398 | 0.21 |
| 1890 | 34 | #438 | 0.18 |
| 1889 | 28 | #474 | 0.16 |
| 1888 | 46 | #354 | 0.26 |
| 1887 | 22 | #484 | 0.15 |
| 1886 | 25 | #435 | 0.17 |
| 1885 | 39 | #326 | 0.29 |
| 1884 | 32 | #355 | 0.25 |
| 1883 | 30 | #327 | 0.27 |
| 1882 | 39 | #286 | 0.36 |
| 1881 | 22 | #356 | 0.24 |
| 1880 | 24 | #332 | 0.26 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Margret a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Margret has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 146 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Margret: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Margret, and how old are they?
4,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 41% of the 10,068 Americans ever recorded as Margret. The median Margret alive today is 62 years old; half are between 42 and 75.
The 2020 Census counted 8,420 people named Margret (8,406 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,697 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 565 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,530 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 844 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 567 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 416 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 168 |
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 Margret born?
The states with the most babies named Margret are Texas, California and Alabama, with 28% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 485 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 420 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Alabama | 335 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Tennessee | 330 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Mississippi | 322 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| North Carolina | 275 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 253 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 232 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 231 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| South Carolina | 208 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Margret is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Margret is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 1.9 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 Margret 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 1,287,651 babies since 1880, Margret is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 2,464 babies (<1%), again the second most given.
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 Margret
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 Margret and names like it
- Compare Margret and MargaretBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMargret peaked in 1921.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Margret since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Margret.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Margret alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.