Meaning not yet researched.
Margarita: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 104 in 2025. Its best rank was #334 in 1950.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #334 in 1950; #1,893 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Margarita in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,893 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1950, at #334.
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Margarita: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 104 girls in 2025. Peak: #334 in 1950 · most girls in one year: 594 (1957).
In 2025, 104 US girls were named Margarita, making it the 1,893rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 78 places from #1,815 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 111 girls named Margarita in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #334, reached in 1950. The most girls given the name in a single year was 594, in 1957. For comparison, it was #1,702 in 2015 and #334 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Margarita in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 40,418 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 5,470 babies named Margarita.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,100 US girls were named Margarita; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 134. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,454 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Margarita ranked highest in California in 2025, at #902 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Margaret (1,268,519 babies since 1880), Rita (285,230 babies since 1880), Pearl (163,010 babies since 1880) and Maggie (123,360 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Marga, Perlita and Margurita are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Daisy, Greta, Madge, Maggie, Maisie and Marge.
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 Dutch, Latvian and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Marga (343), Perlita (310), Margurita (11).
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 32 | #902 | #975 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,545 | #1,391 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,637 | #1,772 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,706 | — |
| Texas | 10 | #2,149 | #1,131 |
| New York | 5 | #2,290 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 104 | #1,893 | — | — |
| 2024 | 111 | #1,815 | — | — |
| 2023 | 114 | #1,788 | — | — |
| 2022 | 112 | #1,826 | — | — |
| 2021 | 95 | #2,040 | — | — |
| 2020 | 88 | #2,092 | — | — |
| 2019 | 110 | #1,848 | — | — |
| 2018 | 107 | #1,884 | — | — |
| 2017 | 125 | #1,712 | — | — |
| 2016 | 134 | #1,633 | — | — |
| 2015 | 125 | #1,702 | — | — |
| 2014 | 132 | #1,632 | — | — |
| 2013 | 145 | #1,521 | — | — |
| 2012 | 144 | #1,536 | — | — |
| 2011 | 165 | #1,388 | — | — |
| 2010 | 169 | #1,375 | — | — |
| 2009 | 209 | #1,202 | — | — |
| 2008 | 229 | #1,129 | — | — |
| 2007 | 245 | #1,072 | — | — |
| 2006 | 276 | #948 | — | — |
| 2005 | 270 | #923 | — | — |
| 2004 | 259 | #931 | — | — |
| 2003 | 289 | #845 | — | — |
| 2002 | 333 | #733 | — | — |
| 2001 | 360 | #690 | — | — |
| 2000 | 378 | #654 | — | — |
| 1999 | 367 | #642 | — | — |
| 1998 | 394 | #610 | — | — |
| 1997 | 467 | #514 | — | — |
| 1996 | 465 | #511 | — | — |
| 1995 | 458 | #526 | — | — |
| 1994 | 511 | #487 | — | — |
| 1993 | 522 | #484 | 6 | #8,292 |
| 1992 | 533 | #463 | — | — |
| 1991 | 573 | #447 | 5 | #9,099 |
| 1990 | 528 | #464 | 12 | #4,573 |
| 1989 | 465 | #506 | — | — |
| 1988 | 394 | #553 | 8 | #5,530 |
| 1987 | 369 | #545 | — | — |
| 1986 | 439 | #489 | — | — |
| 1985 | 397 | #511 | — | — |
| 1984 | 399 | #497 | 7 | #5,350 |
| 1983 | 442 | #461 | 9 | #4,361 |
| 1982 | 461 | #460 | 5 | #6,989 |
| 1981 | 475 | #454 | 5 | #6,903 |
| 1980 | 460 | #465 | — | — |
| 1979 | 421 | #485 | — | — |
| 1978 | 449 | #444 | 7 | #4,860 |
| 1977 | 474 | #429 | 5 | #6,464 |
| 1976 | 503 | #402 | 5 | #6,150 |
| 1975 | 487 | #414 | — | — |
| 1974 | 488 | #411 | 7 | #4,453 |
| 1973 | 462 | #423 | 6 | #4,871 |
| 1972 | 456 | #424 | 5 | #5,474 |
| 1971 | 517 | #411 | — | — |
| 1970 | 501 | #439 | 6 | #4,550 |
| 1969 | 528 | #418 | — | — |
| 1968 | 537 | #402 | — | — |
| 1967 | 524 | #397 | 9 | #2,902 |
| 1966 | 566 | #382 | — | — |
| 1965 | 495 | #419 | — | — |
| 1964 | 551 | #415 | — | — |
| 1963 | 529 | #420 | — | — |
| 1962 | 538 | #421 | — | — |
| 1961 | 543 | #419 | — | — |
| 1960 | 499 | #436 | — | — |
| 1959 | 531 | #410 | — | — |
| 1958 | 574 | #384 | — | — |
| 1957 | 594 | #372 | 6 | #3,822 |
| 1956 | 522 | #393 | — | — |
| 1955 | 553 | #375 | — | — |
| 1954 | 568 | #365 | 7 | #3,344 |
| 1953 | 554 | #359 | — | — |
| 1952 | 520 | #362 | 5 | #4,078 |
| 1951 | 501 | #357 | — | — |
| 1950 | 535 | #334 | — | — |
| 1949 | 498 | #350 | — | — |
| 1948 | 460 | #368 | — | — |
| 1947 | 376 | #419 | — | — |
| 1946 | 357 | #404 | 5 | #3,830 |
| 1945 | 292 | #417 | — | — |
| 1944 | 260 | #450 | — | — |
| 1943 | 302 | #422 | 5 | #3,860 |
| 1942 | 280 | #434 | — | — |
| 1941 | 259 | #426 | — | — |
| 1940 | 262 | #423 | — | — |
| 1939 | 235 | #439 | — | — |
| 1938 | 252 | #423 | — | — |
| 1937 | 240 | #417 | 5 | #3,848 |
| 1936 | 254 | #401 | 9 | #2,556 |
| 1935 | 261 | #400 | — | — |
| 1934 | 251 | #414 | — | — |
| 1933 | 214 | #439 | 5 | #3,969 |
| 1932 | 255 | #409 | — | — |
| 1931 | 302 | #369 | — | — |
| 1930 | 318 | #384 | — | — |
| 1929 | 343 | #353 | 6 | #3,812 |
| 1928 | 316 | #380 | 11 | #2,593 |
| 1927 | 306 | #394 | 6 | #4,032 |
| 1926 | 300 | #397 | 6 | #4,022 |
| 1925 | 279 | #414 | 6 | #4,023 |
| 1924 | 275 | #424 | — | — |
| 1923 | 280 | #402 | — | — |
| 1922 | 246 | #424 | — | — |
| 1921 | 274 | #408 | — | — |
| 1920 | 254 | #416 | 5 | #4,709 |
| 1919 | 190 | #486 | — | — |
| 1918 | 179 | #514 | 5 | #4,568 |
| 1917 | 153 | #543 | — | — |
| 1916 | 138 | #572 | — | — |
| 1915 | 130 | #564 | — | — |
| 1914 | 103 | #551 | — | — |
| 1913 | 100 | #510 | — | — |
| 1912 | 85 | #528 | — | — |
| 1911 | 70 | #494 | — | — |
| 1910 | 60 | #530 | — | — |
| 1909 | 56 | #504 | — | — |
| 1908 | 50 | #516 | — | — |
| 1907 | 49 | #516 | — | — |
| 1906 | 53 | #469 | — | — |
| 1905 | 40 | #551 | — | — |
| 1904 | 51 | #460 | — | — |
| 1903 | 40 | #510 | — | — |
| 1902 | 27 | #646 | — | — |
| 1901 | 30 | #572 | — | — |
| 1900 | 35 | #597 | — | — |
| 1899 | 30 | #560 | — | — |
| 1898 | 23 | #689 | — | — |
| 1897 | 32 | #525 | — | — |
| 1896 | 22 | #680 | — | — |
| 1895 | 22 | #676 | — | — |
| 1894 | 24 | #604 | — | — |
| 1893 | 21 | #640 | — | — |
| 1892 | 21 | #632 | — | — |
| 1891 | 19 | #620 | — | — |
| 1890 | 14 | #748 | — | — |
| 1889 | 15 | #676 | — | — |
| 1888 | 9 | #935 | — | — |
| 1887 | 8 | #914 | — | — |
| 1886 | 16 | #565 | — | — |
| 1885 | 7 | #891 | — | — |
| 1884 | 11 | #665 | — | — |
| 1883 | 6 | #882 | — | — |
| 1881 | 7 | #724 | — | — |
| 1880 | 5 | #904 | — | — |
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).