Marguarite — girls' name
224 babies named Marguarite in U.S. Social Security records since 1914, with the highest year being 1922. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
33% of everyone ever named Marguarite was born in this single decade.
16 babies were named Marguarite in 1922 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Marguarite
The Social Security Administration has registered 224 babies named Marguarite between 1914 and 1965, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marguarite currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1965. The name reached its historical peak in 1922, when 16 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Marguarite performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 73 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Marguarite shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Marguarite in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Marguarite 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 224 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.
Marguarite at a glance
Last recorded 1965Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Marguarite popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1965–1914
- Peak year (1922)
- 16
- Annual births at peak — across 52 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1965.
224 total births across 52 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1922 with 16 births in a single year.
Marguarite by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 73 births that decade — 33% of Marguarite's all-time total
Marguarite decade highlights
- Peak decade 73 births
- Runner-up 44 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Marguarite's strongest decade
73 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 33% of all-time use.
Marguarite by state
Where Marguarite concentrates geographically — total births since 1914
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 5 | 2.2% |
5 of 224 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 2.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 2.2% 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, 1914–1965 (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.