Margrete
Margrete was last recorded in 1954, when 6 babies were given it; 217 Americans have been recorded with it between 1889 and 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Margrete by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Margrete mean?
Wiktionary, Danish section
Margrete is “a female given name, variant of Margrethe”
[mɑˈɡ̊ʁæːˀd̥ə]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Danish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Margrete?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,514, in 1954; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1917, the peak
Margrete peaked in 1917, when 16 girls were given it, #2,160 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 6 | #5,514 | 3.1 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,713 | 6.3 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,983 | 5.8 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,121 | 5.7 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,841 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,539 | 7.1 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,675 | 10.7 |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,035 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,756 | 6.7 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,132 | 5.9 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 7 | #4,284 | 5.8 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,761 | 10.4 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,562 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,875 | 9.7 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,508 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,366 | 8.0 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,414 | 7.8 |
| 1917 | 16 | #2,160 | 14.8 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,208 | 5.7 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,484 | 12.2 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,783 | 10.5 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,514 | 8.0 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,281 | 14.3 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,647 | 12.6 |
| 1908 | 6 | #2,015 | 17.9 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,127 | 17.1 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,223 | 33.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Margrete a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Margrete has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Margrete: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Margrete, and how old are they?
An estimated 13 Americans named Margrete and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 173 people named Margrete (168 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 27 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.4 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,603 babies since 1880, Margrete is the eighth most given (1.5% of them).
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 Margrete
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 Margrete and names like it
- Compare Margrete and MargaretteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sMargrete peaked in 1917.
- Danish namesWiktionary’s origin for Margrete: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Margrete.
- Names starting with MMost given first.