Margrett
Margrett was last recorded in 1991, when 5 babies were given it; 1,371 Americans have been recorded with it between 1885 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Margrett by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Margrett?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,503, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
46 babies in 1924, the peak
Margrett peaked in 1924, when 46 girls were given it, #1,159 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 5 | #14,503 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,341 | 2.6 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,109 | 3.5 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,978 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,299 | 4.1 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,765 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,440 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,213 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,603 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,483 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 10 | #4,435 | 5.2 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,743 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,297 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,836 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,987 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,391 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,197 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,615 | 6.0 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,956 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 17 | #2,753 | 8.8 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,867 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,553 | 9.7 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,910 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,502 | 9.9 |
| 1949 | 20 | #2,252 | 11.7 |
| 1948 | 20 | #2,224 | 11.8 |
| 1947 | 22 | #2,122 | 12.4 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,445 | 10.2 |
| 1945 | 30 | #1,502 | 23.0 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,781 | 17.3 |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,049 | 13.6 |
| 1942 | 29 | #1,547 | 21.5 |
| 1941 | 22 | #1,724 | 18.2 |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,665 | 20.1 |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,708 | 19.1 |
| 1938 | 24 | #1,583 | 21.7 |
| 1937 | 15 | #2,155 | 14.1 |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,778 | 18.3 |
| 1935 | 16 | #2,064 | 15.3 |
| 1934 | 25 | #1,501 | 23.9 |
| 1933 | 29 | #1,347 | 28.8 |
| 1932 | 29 | #1,414 | 27.2 |
| 1931 | 27 | #1,445 | 25.4 |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,732 | 19.5 |
| 1929 | 34 | #1,299 | 30.5 |
| 1928 | 18 | #2,064 | 15.6 |
| 1927 | 39 | #1,271 | 32.7 |
| 1926 | 35 | #1,347 | 29.5 |
| 1925 | 32 | #1,461 | 26.3 |
| 1924 | 46 | #1,159 | 36.8 |
| 1923 | 39 | #1,256 | 32.3 |
| 1922 | 35 | #1,352 | 29.1 |
| 1921 | 31 | #1,503 | 25.1 |
| 1920 | 30 | #1,495 | 25.0 |
| 1919 | 34 | #1,341 | 30.1 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,785 | 19.0 |
| 1917 | 23 | #1,634 | 21.3 |
| 1916 | 25 | #1,513 | 23.9 |
| 1915 | 24 | #1,505 | 24.4 |
| 1914 | 22 | #1,368 | 28.9 |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,442 | 27.2 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,793 | 19.7 |
| 1911 | 13 | #1,346 | 31.1 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,586 | 25.2 |
| 1909 | 16 | #1,038 | 46.1 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,632 | 23.9 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,264 | 15.7 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,281 | 33.9 |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,379 | 30.9 |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,061 | 18.2 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,720 | 22.9 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,538 | 26.5 |
| 1901 | 11 | #1,047 | 46.0 |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,388 | 30.0 |
| 1899 | 9 | #1,155 | 38.6 |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,339 | 30.9 |
| 1897 | 9 | #1,134 | 38.4 |
| 1896 | 9 | #1,177 | 37.8 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,739 | 21.4 |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,201 | 35.9 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,375 | 28.2 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,389 | 28.3 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,455 | 27.0 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,453 | 26.3 |
| 1888 | 12 | #778 | 67.2 |
| 1885 | 7 | #892 | 52.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Margrett a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Margrett has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 86 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Margrett: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Margrett, and how old are they?
An estimated 349 Americans named Margrett and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (26% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 67 and 84. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 476 people named Margrett (476 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 466 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Margrett?
Margrett is a less common spelling of Margret: SSA has recorded 1,371 Margrett and 10,068 Margret since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,287,271 babies since 1880, Margrett is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,464 babies recorded by SSA was a Margrett (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Margrett
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 Margrett and names like it
- Compare Margrett and MargretBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMargrett peaked in 1924.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Margrett since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Margrett.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Margrett alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.