Margretta
Margretta was last recorded in 1989, when 5 babies were given it; 837 Americans have been recorded with it between 1885 and 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Margretta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Margretta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,695, in 1989; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1921, the peak
Margretta peaked in 1921, when 22 girls were given it, #1,902 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 5 | #13,695 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,055 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,286 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,432 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,792 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,849 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,055 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,794 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,181 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,460 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 7 | #5,813 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,672 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,702 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,845 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,669 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,137 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,133 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,056 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,510 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,762 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,844 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,133 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,316 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,105 | 7.2 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,602 | 5.8 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,322 | 6.5 |
| 1951 | 18 | #2,443 | 10.0 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,622 | 9.3 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,944 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,907 | 7.7 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,166 | 6.8 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,828 | 8.3 |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,120 | 13.0 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,253 | 12.1 |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,407 | 10.8 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,618 | 9.6 |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,066 | 14.1 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,120 | 7.9 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,084 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,150 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,399 | 12.2 |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,014 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,078 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,860 | 9.6 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,354 | 12.9 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,441 | 12.2 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,517 | 11.3 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,540 | 7.1 |
| 1929 | 18 | #1,985 | 16.1 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,465 | 12.1 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,644 | 10.9 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,441 | 7.6 |
| 1925 | 17 | #2,247 | 14.0 |
| 1924 | 18 | #2,185 | 14.4 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,269 | 8.3 |
| 1922 | 20 | #1,999 | 16.7 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,902 | 17.8 |
| 1920 | 21 | #1,928 | 17.5 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,135 | 8.8 |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,167 | 14.7 |
| 1917 | 21 | #1,750 | 19.4 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,596 | 11.5 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,826 | 10.2 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,371 | 13.1 |
| 1913 | 21 | #1,259 | 33.6 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,740 | 21.5 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,876 | 20.2 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,138 | 17.3 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,781 | 20.9 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,282 | 33.9 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,756 | 21.5 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,624 | 23.2 |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,141 | 37.7 |
| 1888 | 9 | #936 | 50.4 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,245 | 34.3 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,216 | 34.6 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,148 | 37.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Margretta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Margretta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 77 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Margretta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Margretta, and how old are they?
An estimated 314 Americans named Margretta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (38% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 61 and 79. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 428 people named Margretta (428 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 379 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 11,360 babies since 1880, Margretta is the fourth most given (7.4% of them).
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Margarette | 6,164 | 12 | 1921 |
| Margaretta | 2,535 | under 5 | 1915 |
| Margrette | 850 | under 5 | 1923 |
| Margretta | 837 | under 5 | 1921 |
| Margareta | 494 | under 5 | 1927 |
| Margurette | 263 | under 5 | 1920 |
| Margrete | 217 | under 5 | 1917 |
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 Margretta
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 Margretta and names like it
- Compare Margretta and MargaretteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMargretta peaked in 1921.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Margretta since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Margretta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Margretta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.