Meaning not yet researched.
Margo: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 540 in 2025. Its best rank was #295 in 1951.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #295 in 1951; #559 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Margo in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#559 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1951, at #295.
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Margo: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 540 girls in 2025. Peak: #295 in 1951 · most girls in one year: 715 (1954).
In 2025, 540 US girls were named Margo, making it the 559th most common girls’ name of the year, down 13 places from #546 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 556 girls named Margo in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #295, reached in 1951. The most girls given the name in a single year was 715, in 1954. For comparison, it was #1,277 in 2015 and #313 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Margo in 120 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1905 with 5 babies. In all, 27,242 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 5,891 babies named Margo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,035 US girls were named Margo; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 556. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,976 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Margo ranked highest in Rhode Island in 2025, at #209 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).
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. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Margo in the open dataset we use.
Margo is listed as a nickname for Margarita.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 18 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island | 5 | #209 | — |
| Nebraska | 10 | #235 | — |
| Michigan | 32 | #279 | #876 |
| Utah | 16 | #283 | #811 |
| Missouri | 22 | #286 | #1,082 |
| Minnesota | 19 | #298 | #588 |
| Iowa | 11 | #313 | — |
| Wisconsin | 16 | #337 | #820 |
| Indiana | 20 | #353 | — |
| Oregon | 10 | #379 | — |
| Colorado | 16 | #382 | — |
| Ohio | 28 | #409 | #1,125 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #413 | — |
| Connecticut | 7 | #438 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 24 | #448 | #1,193 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #485 | — |
| Massachusetts | 11 | #505 | — |
| Tennessee | 14 | #556 | — |
| Illinois | 17 | #590 | #1,128 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #592 | — |
| North Carolina | 18 | #596 | #953 |
| Virginia | 13 | #596 | #1,166 |
| South Carolina | 7 | #659 | — |
| New Jersey | 11 | #695 | — |
| Washington | 9 | #717 | #742 |
| California | 43 | #727 | #1,411 |
| Florida | 23 | #730 | — |
| Maryland | 6 | #802 | — |
| Georgia | 12 | #837 | #1,269 |
| Arizona | 7 | #879 | — |
| Alabama | 5 | #903 | — |
| Texas | 30 | #976 | #2,778 |
| New York | 15 | #1,010 | #1,895 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 540 | #559 | — | — |
| 2024 | 556 | #546 | — | — |
| 2023 | 556 | #543 | — | — |
| 2022 | 481 | #617 | — | — |
| 2021 | 464 | #640 | — | — |
| 2020 | 356 | #765 | — | — |
| 2019 | 321 | #841 | — | — |
| 2018 | 271 | #976 | — | — |
| 2017 | 236 | #1,077 | — | — |
| 2016 | 254 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 2015 | 191 | #1,277 | — | — |
| 2014 | 153 | #1,467 | — | — |
| 2013 | 117 | #1,757 | — | — |
| 2012 | 94 | #2,056 | — | — |
| 2011 | 98 | #2,012 | — | — |
| 2010 | 82 | #2,332 | — | — |
| 2009 | 84 | #2,330 | — | — |
| 2008 | 98 | #2,089 | — | — |
| 2007 | 82 | #2,343 | — | — |
| 2006 | 80 | #2,368 | — | — |
| 2005 | 80 | #2,273 | — | — |
| 2004 | 85 | #2,129 | — | — |
| 2003 | 89 | #2,030 | — | — |
| 2002 | 93 | #1,908 | — | — |
| 2001 | 89 | #1,952 | — | — |
| 2000 | 106 | #1,669 | — | — |
| 1999 | 94 | #1,729 | — | — |
| 1998 | 108 | #1,548 | — | — |
| 1997 | 108 | #1,511 | — | — |
| 1996 | 108 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 1995 | 116 | #1,415 | — | — |
| 1994 | 127 | #1,335 | — | — |
| 1993 | 143 | #1,217 | — | — |
| 1992 | 134 | #1,279 | — | — |
| 1991 | 126 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 1990 | 153 | #1,136 | — | — |
| 1989 | 173 | #998 | 6 | #7,571 |
| 1988 | 176 | #953 | — | — |
| 1987 | 148 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 1986 | 137 | #1,089 | — | — |
| 1985 | 147 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 1984 | 147 | #985 | — | — |
| 1983 | 194 | #802 | — | — |
| 1982 | 222 | #751 | — | — |
| 1981 | 233 | #714 | — | — |
| 1980 | 164 | #918 | — | — |
| 1979 | 187 | #835 | — | — |
| 1978 | 176 | #843 | — | — |
| 1977 | 183 | #822 | 6 | #5,579 |
| 1976 | 175 | #798 | — | — |
| 1975 | 180 | #784 | — | — |
| 1974 | 215 | #686 | — | — |
| 1973 | 274 | #580 | — | — |
| 1972 | 294 | #563 | — | — |
| 1971 | 301 | #582 | — | — |
| 1970 | 286 | #608 | — | — |
| 1969 | 346 | #530 | 5 | #4,787 |
| 1968 | 335 | #525 | — | — |
| 1967 | 375 | #493 | — | — |
| 1966 | 371 | #486 | — | — |
| 1965 | 336 | #521 | — | — |
| 1964 | 410 | #478 | — | — |
| 1963 | 436 | #465 | — | — |
| 1962 | 464 | #445 | — | — |
| 1961 | 461 | #455 | — | — |
| 1960 | 422 | #479 | — | — |
| 1959 | 476 | #441 | — | — |
| 1958 | 469 | #438 | — | — |
| 1957 | 519 | #406 | — | — |
| 1956 | 512 | #400 | — | — |
| 1955 | 555 | #374 | — | — |
| 1954 | 715 | #315 | 5 | #4,167 |
| 1953 | 635 | #330 | — | — |
| 1952 | 677 | #311 | — | — |
| 1951 | 713 | #295 | — | — |
| 1950 | 615 | #313 | — | — |
| 1949 | 631 | #308 | — | — |
| 1948 | 488 | #352 | — | — |
| 1947 | 595 | #322 | — | — |
| 1946 | 482 | #339 | — | — |
| 1945 | 455 | #316 | — | — |
| 1944 | 434 | #329 | — | — |
| 1943 | 441 | #338 | — | — |
| 1942 | 487 | #311 | 6 | #3,436 |
| 1941 | 474 | #297 | 6 | #3,370 |
| 1940 | 304 | #381 | — | — |
| 1939 | 314 | #371 | — | — |
| 1938 | 316 | #367 | — | — |
| 1937 | 160 | #524 | — | — |
| 1936 | 115 | #617 | — | — |
| 1935 | 77 | #771 | — | — |
| 1934 | 43 | #1,069 | — | — |
| 1933 | 47 | #1,016 | — | — |
| 1932 | 45 | #1,062 | — | — |
| 1931 | 31 | #1,328 | — | — |
| 1930 | 61 | #939 | — | — |
| 1929 | 37 | #1,235 | — | — |
| 1928 | 30 | #1,452 | — | — |
| 1927 | 29 | #1,544 | — | — |
| 1926 | 29 | #1,528 | — | — |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,678 | — | — |
| 1924 | 29 | #1,589 | — | — |
| 1923 | 32 | #1,446 | — | — |
| 1922 | 30 | #1,527 | — | — |
| 1921 | 32 | #1,462 | — | — |
| 1920 | 30 | #1,494 | — | — |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,833 | — | — |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,853 | — | — |
| 1917 | 21 | #1,749 | — | — |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,089 | — | — |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,038 | — | — |
| 1914 | 14 | #1,870 | — | — |
| 1913 | 19 | #1,337 | — | — |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,077 | — | — |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,889 | — | — |
| 1910 | 13 | #1,309 | — | — |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,136 | — | — |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,506 | — | — |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,865 | — | — |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,127 | — | — |
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).