In 2025, 7 US girls were named Margarett, making it the 12,704th most common girls’ name of the year, up 4,107 places from #16,811 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 5 girls named Margarett in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #673, reached in 1932. The most girls given the name in a single year was 117, in 1922. For comparison, it was #18,171 in 2015 and #915 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Margarett in 128 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 4,933 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,072 babies named Margarett.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 33 US girls were named Margarett; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 9. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Margaret (1,268,519 babies since 1880), Margarette (6,164 babies since 1880) and Margarete (2,376 babies since 1880).