Marguerita
Marguerita was last recorded in 1994, when 5 babies were given it; 1,308 Americans have been recorded with it between 1891 and 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marguerita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marguerita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,840, in 1994; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1961, the peak
Marguerita peaked in 1961, when 34 girls were given it, #2,022 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 5 | #14,840 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,183 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,625 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,342 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,397 | 3.8 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,693 | 3.5 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,509 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,915 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,669 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,426 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 10 | #6,494 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,741 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,597 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,380 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,584 | 13.0 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,898 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,854 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,482 | 11.8 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,345 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,520 | 10.3 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,089 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,911 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 19 | #2,928 | 11.5 |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,719 | 12.4 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,113 | 9.6 |
| 1964 | 29 | #2,280 | 15.3 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,277 | 8.3 |
| 1962 | 31 | #2,139 | 15.8 |
| 1961 | 34 | #2,022 | 16.8 |
| 1960 | 22 | #2,618 | 10.9 |
| 1959 | 19 | #2,720 | 9.4 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,425 | 11.4 |
| 1957 | 19 | #2,699 | 9.3 |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,430 | 11.0 |
| 1955 | 30 | #1,965 | 15.3 |
| 1954 | 23 | #2,273 | 11.8 |
| 1953 | 25 | #2,104 | 13.3 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,633 | 9.2 |
| 1951 | 27 | #1,907 | 15.0 |
| 1950 | 23 | #2,033 | 13.4 |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,477 | 9.9 |
| 1948 | 21 | #2,161 | 12.4 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,596 | 9.0 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,830 | 8.3 |
| 1945 | 16 | #2,202 | 12.2 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,880 | 8.3 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,049 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,753 | 8.9 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,616 | 9.9 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,513 | 10.5 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,315 | 7.3 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,714 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,523 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,015 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,521 | 11.4 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,723 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 16 | #2,014 | 15.9 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,442 | 12.2 |
| 1931 | 16 | #2,078 | 15.0 |
| 1930 | 26 | #1,555 | 23.1 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,852 | 9.9 |
| 1928 | 18 | #2,065 | 15.6 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,399 | 12.6 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,969 | 16.9 |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,087 | 15.6 |
| 1924 | 20 | #2,039 | 16.0 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,332 | 13.3 |
| 1922 | 21 | #1,935 | 17.5 |
| 1921 | 26 | #1,704 | 21.1 |
| 1920 | 31 | #1,463 | 25.9 |
| 1919 | 28 | #1,511 | 24.8 |
| 1918 | 23 | #1,735 | 19.9 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,389 | 12.9 |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,925 | 17.2 |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,851 | 18.3 |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,639 | 22.3 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,265 | 14.4 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,587 | 23.3 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,877 | 20.2 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,554 | 25.9 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,266 | 15.7 |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,062 | 18.2 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,964 | 19.1 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,856 | 20.0 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,757 | 21.5 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,860 | 19.3 |
| 1897 | 8 | #1,228 | 34.2 |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,383 | 30.0 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,626 | 22.4 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,583 | 23.5 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,456 | 27.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marguerita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marguerita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 91 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marguerita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marguerita, and how old are they?
An estimated 651 Americans named Marguerita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (50% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 55 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 977 people named Marguerita (973 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 735 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 140,272 babies since 1880, Marguerita is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 175 babies recorded by SSA was a Marguerita (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marguerite | 94,123 | 71 | 1918 |
| Margarita | 40,418 | 104 | 1957 |
| Margurite | 1,745 | under 5 | 1923 |
| Marguerita | 1,308 | under 5 | 1961 |
| Margueritte | 1,221 | under 5 | 1919 |
| Margherita | 1,155 | under 5 | 1926 |
| Marguarite | 224 | under 5 | 1922 |
| Margerite | 78 | under 5 | 1920 |
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 Marguerita
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 Marguerita and names like it
- Compare Marguerita and MargueriteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sMarguerita peaked in 1961.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marguerita since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Marguerita.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Marguerita alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.