In 2025, 2,575 US girls were named Margot, making it the 102nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 25 places from #127 in 2024. That is 348 more than the 2,227 girls named Margot in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #102, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,575. For comparison, it was #593 in 2015 and #906 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Margot in 127 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1894 with 5 babies. In all, 25,568 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 11,061 babies named Margot.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 14,613 US girls were named Margot; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 2,575. In 2025 that was about 1 in 624 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Margot ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #40 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 21 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Margaret (1,268,519 babies since 1880), Maggie (123,360 babies since 1880), Marguerite (94,123 babies since 1880) and Margarita (40,418 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Margaet, Margett and Margoth are summarised on this page.