Meaning not yet researched.
Margret: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #286 in 1882.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #286 in 1882; #5,843 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Margret in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,843 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1882, at #286.
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Margret: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 girls in 2025. Peak: #286 in 1882 · most girls in one year: 214 (1921).
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Margret, making it the 5,843rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,284 places from #7,127 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 16 girls named Margret in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #286, reached in 1882. The most girls given the name in a single year was 214, in 1921. For comparison, it was #8,762 in 2015 and #757 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Margret in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 24 babies with the name. In all, 10,068 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,850 babies named Margret.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 129 US girls were named Margret; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 21. In 2025 that was about 1 in 76,537 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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 Margrett, Margrette and Margreat are summarised on this page.
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 German and Icelandic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Margrett (1,371), Margrette (850), Margreat (394), Margrit (61), Margreet (10), Margrate (10).
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.
No nicknames listed for Margret in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,843 | — | — |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,127 | — | — |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,818 | — | — |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,916 | — | — |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,042 | — | — |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,252 | — | — |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,917 | — | — |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,442 | — | — |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,146 | — | — |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,854 | — | — |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,762 | — | — |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,897 | — | — |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,619 | — | — |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,348 | — | — |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,023 | — | — |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,401 | — | — |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,236 | — | — |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,623 | — | — |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,349 | — | — |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,155 | — | — |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,380 | — | — |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,488 | — | — |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,084 | — | — |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,581 | — | — |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,181 | — | — |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,707 | — | — |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,400 | — | — |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,053 | — | — |
| 1997 | 37 | #3,203 | — | — |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,899 | — | — |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,549 | — | — |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,148 | — | — |
| 1993 | 38 | #3,083 | — | — |
| 1992 | 50 | #2,536 | — | — |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,293 | — | — |
| 1990 | 38 | #2,994 | — | — |
| 1989 | 42 | #2,698 | — | — |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,683 | — | — |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,468 | — | — |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,512 | — | — |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,906 | — | — |
| 1984 | 48 | #2,103 | — | — |
| 1983 | 37 | #2,497 | — | — |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,876 | — | — |
| 1981 | 39 | #2,473 | — | — |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,516 | — | — |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,509 | — | — |
| 1978 | 35 | #2,498 | — | — |
| 1977 | 52 | #1,913 | — | — |
| 1976 | 47 | #1,923 | — | — |
| 1975 | 56 | #1,700 | — | — |
| 1974 | 51 | #1,764 | — | — |
| 1973 | 58 | #1,601 | — | — |
| 1972 | 55 | #1,647 | — | — |
| 1971 | 50 | #1,790 | — | — |
| 1970 | 63 | #1,554 | — | — |
| 1969 | 64 | #1,474 | — | — |
| 1968 | 72 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 1967 | 79 | #1,200 | — | — |
| 1966 | 88 | #1,132 | — | — |
| 1965 | 70 | #1,298 | — | — |
| 1964 | 102 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 1963 | 92 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 1962 | 91 | #1,147 | — | — |
| 1961 | 91 | #1,160 | — | — |
| 1960 | 83 | #1,194 | — | — |
| 1959 | 72 | #1,268 | — | — |
| 1958 | 95 | #1,076 | — | — |
| 1957 | 87 | #1,130 | — | — |
| 1956 | 99 | #1,031 | — | — |
| 1955 | 100 | #999 | — | — |
| 1954 | 113 | #906 | — | — |
| 1953 | 124 | #833 | — | — |
| 1952 | 128 | #803 | — | — |
| 1951 | 105 | #880 | — | — |
| 1950 | 131 | #757 | — | — |
| 1949 | 143 | #711 | — | — |
| 1948 | 108 | #842 | — | — |
| 1947 | 122 | #785 | — | — |
| 1946 | 105 | #807 | — | — |
| 1945 | 85 | #820 | — | — |
| 1944 | 97 | #775 | — | — |
| 1943 | 108 | #749 | — | — |
| 1942 | 104 | #741 | — | — |
| 1941 | 87 | #775 | — | — |
| 1940 | 102 | #691 | — | — |
| 1939 | 107 | #658 | — | — |
| 1938 | 110 | #653 | — | — |
| 1937 | 123 | #608 | — | — |
| 1936 | 81 | #746 | — | — |
| 1935 | 121 | #591 | — | — |
| 1934 | 113 | #626 | — | — |
| 1933 | 122 | #583 | — | — |
| 1932 | 143 | #548 | — | — |
| 1931 | 136 | #565 | — | — |
| 1930 | 181 | #496 | — | — |
| 1929 | 153 | #555 | — | — |
| 1928 | 163 | #548 | — | — |
| 1927 | 199 | #496 | — | — |
| 1926 | 194 | #502 | — | — |
| 1925 | 172 | #549 | — | — |
| 1924 | 196 | #507 | — | — |
| 1923 | 177 | #538 | — | — |
| 1922 | 198 | #493 | — | — |
| 1921 | 214 | #472 | — | — |
| 1920 | 184 | #517 | — | — |
| 1919 | 177 | #510 | — | — |
| 1918 | 199 | #480 | — | — |
| 1917 | 168 | #513 | — | — |
| 1916 | 162 | #514 | — | — |
| 1915 | 111 | #625 | — | — |
| 1914 | 119 | #512 | — | — |
| 1913 | 84 | #560 | — | — |
| 1912 | 90 | #509 | — | — |
| 1911 | 59 | #553 | — | — |
| 1910 | 67 | #499 | — | — |
| 1909 | 44 | #585 | — | — |
| 1908 | 56 | #485 | — | — |
| 1907 | 51 | #503 | — | — |
| 1906 | 47 | #507 | — | — |
| 1905 | 51 | #480 | — | — |
| 1904 | 37 | #554 | — | — |
| 1903 | 37 | #537 | — | — |
| 1902 | 33 | #579 | — | — |
| 1901 | 32 | #543 | — | — |
| 1900 | 49 | #485 | — | — |
| 1899 | 33 | #521 | — | — |
| 1898 | 34 | #553 | — | — |
| 1897 | 30 | #549 | — | — |
| 1896 | 39 | #466 | — | — |
| 1895 | 36 | #490 | — | — |
| 1894 | 30 | #531 | — | — |
| 1893 | 31 | #498 | — | — |
| 1892 | 33 | #475 | — | — |
| 1891 | 39 | #398 | — | — |
| 1890 | 34 | #438 | — | — |
| 1889 | 28 | #474 | — | — |
| 1888 | 46 | #354 | — | — |
| 1887 | 22 | #484 | — | — |
| 1886 | 25 | #435 | — | — |
| 1885 | 39 | #326 | — | — |
| 1884 | 32 | #355 | — | — |
| 1883 | 30 | #327 | — | — |
| 1882 | 39 | #286 | — | — |
| 1881 | 22 | #356 | — | — |
| 1880 | 24 | #332 | — | — |
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).