Name

Name MARGARET

Between 1880 and 2022 there were 1,427,718 births of Margaret in the countries below, which represents an average of 10,054 births of children bearing the first name Margaret per year on average throughout this period.
On the last available year for each country, we count 2,474 births.

Other languages :
En Français

Prénom Margaret
In Italiano

Nome Margaret

Variations : Greta , Gréta , Gretchen , Madge , Maggie , Mairead , Mairéad , Mamie , Margarete , Margaretha , Margarita , Margarite , Marge , Margot , Margót , Marguerite , Marguérite , Marita , Marjorie , Mazie , Megan , Mégan , Meta , Peggy , Reatha , Rita

Information about the first name Margaret

We celebrate Margaret on November 16th

The first name Margaret is listed in our categories :

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The first name Margaret has been assigned to:

0.09% to boys
99.91% to girls

The country where the first name Margaret is the most common is:

United State of America

This first name is on trend: Female

This first name has 8 letters including 3 vowels and 5 consonants

Anagrams of the first name Margaret

An anagram is a word that contains the same letters of another word. Here is the list of first names which are an anagram of Margaret : Maragret, Margarte, Margerat, Margreat, Margreta

Margaret in Japanese ^*

Romaji	maagaretto
Katakana	マーガレット
Hiragana	まーがれっと
* This is a phonetic conversion, not a translation.
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Margaret in binary language

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Origin and meaning of name Margaret

English

Etymology

From the name of a legendary third century saint, from Middle English Margaret, from Old French Margaret (French Marguerite), from Latin Margarita, from Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs, “pearl”), ultimately from an Indo-Iranian source.
The same source, through folk etymology, has produced Old English meregrot (“pearl”, literally “stone or pebble of the sea”), related to Old Saxon merigrita, merigriota (“pearl”), Old High German merigrioz, equivalent to mer- +‎ groat.

Anagrams

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Pronunciation

(UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɑːɡɹɪt/, /ˈmɑːɡəɹɪt/, /-ət/
(US) IPA(key): /ˈmɑɹɡɹɪt/, /ˈmɑɹɡəɹɪt/, /-ət/

Proper noun

Margaret (countable and uncountable, plural Margarets)
A female given name from Ancient Greek.
A river in southwestern Western Australia, presumed named for a cousin of John Garrett Bussell, founder of Busselton.
A river in Kimberley, Western Australia, named for its European discoverer's sister-in-law.
(astronomy) A moon of Uranus, named for a character in Much Ado About Nothing. [Discovered 2003]

Popularity of the name Margaret

Number of MARGARET births per year

Popularity of the name Margaret

Total births of Margaret by country

		Births with the first name Margaret
Country		Boys Girls
	United State of America 1880 - 2022	1,195 1,257,420
	Ontario 1913 - 2019	70 59,745
	New Zealand 1900 - 2022	0 36,738
	Australia 1930 - 2022	31 23,048
	Ireland 1964 - 2022	0 18,071
	British Columbia 1919 - 2022	0 10,233
	New Scotland 1920 - 2022	0 9,160
	Brazil 1930 - 2022	0 3,680
	France 1900 - 2022	0 3,032
	United Kingdom 1996 - 2021	0 2,196
	Norway 1945 - 2022	0 904
	Alberta 1980 - 2022	0 768
	Switzerland 1909 - 2021	0 615
	Italy 1999 - 2021	2 292
	Quebec 1980 - 2022	1 201
	Chili 2010 - 2021	0 98
	Germany 2000 - 2022	0 94
	Argentina 1922 - 2015	0 34
	Czechoslovakia 1900 - 2016	0 24
	Denmark 1985 - 2022	0 23
	Poland 2000 - 2022	0 23
	Austria 1984 - 2021	0 14
	Sweden 1998 - 2022	0 4
	Portugal 2014 - 2022	0 1
	Slovakia 2011 - 2022	0 1

Popularity of the name Margaret

Total births of Margaret by country (last available year)

		Births with the first name Margaret
Country		Boys Girls
	United State of America 2022	0 2,164
	United Kingdom 2021	0 106
	Ontario 2019	0 54
	Ireland 2022	0 28
	British Columbia 2022	0 23
	Alberta 2022	0 18
	Italy 2021	0 18
	Germany 2022	0 14
	France 2022	0 14
	New Zealand 2022	0 12
	Chili 2021	0 10
	Quebec 2022	0 7
	Czechoslovakia 2016	0 3
	Argentina 2015	0 1
	Switzerland 2021	0 1
	Denmark 2022	0 1

Comments on the name Margaret

Personalities with the first name Margaret

There are 509 personalities with the first name Margaret

Margaret Atwood

Canada
Writer Poet Inventor Pedagogue Literary critic Novelist Essayist Non-fiction writer Science fiction writer

Margaret Mitchell

United states of america
Screenwriter Writer Journalist Novelist Prosaist

Margaret Mead

United states of america
Writer Curator Film director Anthropologist

Sally Field (Sally Margaret Field)

United states of america
Film director Film producer Television actor Film actor Screenwriter Actor Singer Stage actor Voice actor

Maggie Smith (Margaret Natalie Smith)

United kingdom
Actor Character actor Stage actor Television actor Film actor

Mata Hari (Margaretha Geertruida Zelle)

Kingdom of the netherlands
Courtesan Exotic dancer Dancer Spy

Meg Ryan (Margaret Mary Emily Hyra)

United states of america
Film producer Model Television actor Film actor Actor Character actor Voice actor Film director

Margot Fonteyn (Margaret Evelyn Hookham)

United kingdom United kingdom of great britain and ireland
Ballet dancer Choreographer Fashion designer Dancer

Margaret Smith Court (Margaret Smith)

Australia
Tennis player

Margaret Du Royaume-Uni (Princess Margaret Rose Of York)

United kingdom
Socialite Aristocrat

There are more than 10 personalities with the first name Margaret
Full list of personalities with the first name Margaret

Film Actors and Actresses with the first name Margaret

There are 1649 actors and actresses with the first name Margaret

Margaret Macpherson

Margaret Qualley

Margaret Treacy

Margaret Baughman

Margaret Mcdonald

Margaret Ann Garza

Margaret Berger

Margaret Laney

Margaret Wang

Margaret Ratliff

Margaret M. Spirito

Margaret Thompson

Margaret Anne Florence

Margaret Baker

Margaret Chung

Margaret Evans

Margaret Rose Champagne

Margaret Cabourn-Smith

Margaret Makinen

Margaret Langrick

Margaret Easley

Margaret Cho

Margaret Urlich

Margaret Trigg

Margaret Mazzantini

Margaret Nagle

Margaret Bykoff

Margaret Molster

Margaret Colin

Margaret Reed

There are more than 30 actors and actresses with the first name Margaret
The full list of actors and actresses with the first name Margaret

Rankings of first name MARGARET by country

Country ranking (boys)
Rank	Country	Year
No ranking of first name MARGARET (male) births over the last year available in each country

Country ranking (girls)
Rank	Country	Year
#127	United State of America	2022
#140	British Columbia	2022
#177	Ireland	2022
#206	Alberta	2022
#208	Ontario	2019
#378	New Zealand	2022
#421	United Kingdom	2021
#538	Czechoslovakia	2016
#612	Italy	2021
#625	Quebec	2022
#636	Chili	2021
#2109	Germany	2022
#2296	France	2022
#2431	Denmark	2022
#3364	Argentina	2015
#4590	Switzerland	2021