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