In 2025, 12 US girls were named Margarette, making it the 8,670th most common girls’ name of the year, up 94 places from #8,764 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 12 girls named Margarette in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #493, reached in 1921. That year also had the most girls given the name: 200. For comparison, it was #10,611 in 2015 and #1,140 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Margarette in 143 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 9 babies. In all, 6,164 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,619 babies named Margarette.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 94 US girls were named Margarette; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 12. In 2025 that was about 1 in 133,939 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Margaretta (2,535 babies since 1880), Margarete (2,376 babies since 1880), Margaret (1,268,519 babies since 1880) and Margarett (4,933 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Margurette, Margaruite and Marguriette are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.