Margrette — girls' name
850 babies named Margrette in U.S. Social Security records since 1903, with the highest year being 1923. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
33% of everyone ever named Margrette was born in this single decade.
34 babies were named Margrette in 1923 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Margrette
The Social Security Administration has registered 850 babies named Margrette between 1903 and 1968, spanning 66 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Margrette currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1968. The name reached its historical peak in 1923, when 34 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Margrette performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 280 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Margrette shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Alabama, which accounts for 27 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Margrette in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Margrette in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 850 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Margrette at a glance
Last recorded 1968Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Margrette popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1968–1903
- Peak year (1923)
- 34
- Annual births at peak — across 66 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1968.
850 total births across 66 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1923 with 34 births in a single year.
Margrette by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 280 births that decade — 33% of Margrette's all-time total
Margrette decade highlights
- Peak decade 280 births
- Runner-up 189 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Margrette's strongest decade
280 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 33% of all-time use.
Margrette by state
Where Margrette concentrates geographically — total births since 1903
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Alabama | | 27 | 3.2% |
| #2 | Georgia | | 12 | 1.4% |
| #3 | Texas | | 12 | 1.4% |
| #4 | Mississippi | | 9 | 1.1% |
| #5 | Tennessee | | 5 | 0.6% |
27 of 850 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 5 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Alabama 3.2% of nationwide
- Georgia 1.4% of nationwide
- Texas 1.4% of nationwide
- Mississippi 1.1% of nationwide
- Tennessee 0.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 5 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Alabama accounts for 3.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1903–1968 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.