Girl

Margaretta

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
—
under 5 girls
Peak
#553
in 1884
1950
#1,615
rank

Margaretta: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #553 in 1884.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Fewer than five US girls were given it in 2025. It peaked at #553 in 1884. No US babies were recorded with the name Margaretta in 2025.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

Given to fewer than five US girls in 2025; it peaked at #553 in 1884.

Babies in 2025
0
Since 1880
2,535
Years on record
109

Babies named Margaretta, every year since 1880

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Girls

Margaretta: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 girls in 2025. Peak: #553 in 1884 · most girls in one year: 76 (1915).

About the name Margaretta

Fewer than five US girls were named Margaretta in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #553, reached in 1884. The most girls given the name in a single year was 76, in 1915. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #1,615 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Margaretta in 109 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 2,535 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 475 babies named Margaretta.

In none of the 10 years from 2016 to 2025 were five or more US girls named Margaretta.

Related spellings in the SSA files include Margarette (6,164 babies since 1880) and Margarita (40,418 babies since 1880). The open nickname list we use links it to Daisy, Gretta, Madge, Maggie, Marge and Margery.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.

Related spellings

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

Margaretta is listed as a nickname for Marge.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
20075#19,447——
19956#12,740——
19938#10,187——
19886#11,215——
19855#11,760——
19848#7,849——
19838#7,749——
19829#7,241——
19817#8,670——
198014#5,132——
19796#9,683——
197811#5,805——
19777#8,054——
197612#5,075——
19758#6,880——
19748#6,608——
19739#5,854——
19729#5,750——
197116#3,880——
197015#3,976——
196911#4,615——
19688#5,458——
196711#4,200——
196618#3,000——
196524#2,508——
196419#2,975——
196318#3,033——
196215#3,375——
196117#3,138——
196017#3,055——
195921#2,560——
195819#2,721——
195721#2,535——
195617#2,895——
195532#1,898——
195420#2,487——
195331#1,812——
195229#1,875——
195122#2,167——
195034#1,615——
194937#1,530——
194826#1,889——
194732#1,709——
194631#1,610——
194530#1,502——
194437#1,330——
194342#1,265——
194229#1,546——
194131#1,405——
194024#1,619——
193936#1,236——
193831#1,333——
193734#1,245——
193621#1,672——
193538#1,155——
193422#1,633——
193317#1,945——
193234#1,254——
193122#1,664——
193029#1,451——
192931#1,386——
192834#1,326——
192732#1,443——
192649#1,074——
192544#1,170——
192456#1,041——
192357#1,000——
192263#936——
192154#1,028——
192055#1,002——
191943#1,130——
191859#933——
191758#910——
191658#890——
191576#760——
191437#980——
191345#790——
191223#1,103——
191124#893——
191021#959——
190926#808——
190822#845——
190723#785——
190615#991——
190521#816——
190411#1,150——
190321#750——
190210#1,186——
190113#949——
190017#934——
189912#960——
189816#871——
189715#854——
189616#829——
189516#807——
189420#676——
189318#703——
18929#1,061——
189118#635——
189016#685——
188918#612——
188816#657——
18878#913——
18866#1,060——
188514#597——
188415#553——
18826#867——
18819#610——
18805#903——

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).