Margurette — girls' name
263 babies named Margurette in U.S. Social Security records since 1906, with the highest year being 1920. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
45% of everyone ever named Margurette was born in this single decade.
21 babies were named Margurette in 1920 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Margurette
The Social Security Administration has registered 263 babies named Margurette between 1906 and 1953, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Margurette currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1953. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 21 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Margurette performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 118 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Margurette shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Margurette in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Margurette 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 263 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.
Margurette at a glance
Last recorded 1953Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Margurette popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1953–1906
- Peak year (1920)
- 21
- Annual births at peak — across 48 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1953.
263 total births across 48 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1920 with 21 births in a single year.
Margurette by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 118 births that decade — 45% of Margurette's all-time total
Margurette decade highlights
- Peak decade 118 births
- Runner-up 75 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Margurette's strongest decade
118 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 45% of all-time use.
Margurette by state
Where Margurette concentrates geographically — total births since 1906
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 10 | 3.8% |
10 of 263 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 3.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 3.8% 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, 1906–1953 (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.