Meaning not yet researched.
Marguerite: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 71 in 2025. Its best rank was #78 in 1917.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #78 in 1917; #2,505 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marguerite in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,505 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1917, at #78.
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Marguerite: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 71 girls in 2025. Peak: #78 in 1917 · most girls in one year: 3,249 (1918).
In 2025, 71 US girls were named Marguerite, making it the 2,505th most common girls’ name of the year, down 78 places from #2,427 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 75 girls named Marguerite in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #78, reached in 1917. The most girls given the name in a single year was 3,249, in 1918. For comparison, it was #2,335 in 2015 and #250 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marguerite in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 48 babies with the name. In all, 94,123 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 22,684 babies named Marguerite.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 777 US girls were named Marguerite; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 91. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,638 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Marguerite ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #1,134 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), Maggie (123,360 babies since 1880), Margarita (40,418 babies since 1880) and Margot (25,568 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Marguerita, Margueritte and Marguarite are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Peggy.
Meaning not yet researched.
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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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Marguerita (1,308), Margueritte (1,221), Marguarite (224), Marguerette (132), Marguriete (121), Margerite (78), Margaurite (68), Marguritte (48), Margueriete (39), Marguerete (26), Margeurite (25), Margueritt (11), and more.
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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 6 | #1,134 | — |
| New York | 6 | #1,977 | — |
| Texas | 8 | #2,556 | #2,011 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71 | #2,505 | — | — |
| 2024 | 75 | #2,427 | — | — |
| 2023 | 80 | #2,303 | — | — |
| 2022 | 75 | #2,441 | — | — |
| 2021 | 80 | #2,302 | — | — |
| 2020 | 71 | #2,461 | — | — |
| 2019 | 79 | #2,299 | — | — |
| 2018 | 79 | #2,320 | — | — |
| 2017 | 91 | #2,124 | — | — |
| 2016 | 76 | #2,440 | — | — |
| 2015 | 80 | #2,335 | — | — |
| 2014 | 74 | #2,459 | — | — |
| 2013 | 72 | #2,501 | — | — |
| 2012 | 67 | #2,673 | — | — |
| 2011 | 67 | #2,657 | — | — |
| 2010 | 77 | #2,446 | — | — |
| 2009 | 71 | #2,610 | — | — |
| 2008 | 89 | #2,225 | — | — |
| 2007 | 82 | #2,344 | — | — |
| 2006 | 84 | #2,282 | — | — |
| 2005 | 74 | #2,398 | — | — |
| 2004 | 103 | #1,849 | — | — |
| 2003 | 106 | #1,782 | — | — |
| 2002 | 101 | #1,788 | — | — |
| 2001 | 107 | #1,695 | — | — |
| 2000 | 112 | #1,584 | — | — |
| 1999 | 106 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 1998 | 114 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 1997 | 110 | #1,494 | — | — |
| 1996 | 112 | #1,473 | — | — |
| 1995 | 120 | #1,375 | — | — |
| 1994 | 134 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 1993 | 95 | #1,605 | — | — |
| 1992 | 108 | #1,467 | — | — |
| 1991 | 134 | #1,259 | — | — |
| 1990 | 124 | #1,312 | — | — |
| 1989 | 125 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 1988 | 129 | #1,179 | — | — |
| 1987 | 130 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 1986 | 117 | #1,201 | — | — |
| 1985 | 113 | #1,222 | — | — |
| 1984 | 121 | #1,135 | — | — |
| 1983 | 123 | #1,109 | — | — |
| 1982 | 91 | #1,361 | — | — |
| 1981 | 114 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 1980 | 90 | #1,386 | — | — |
| 1979 | 97 | #1,299 | — | — |
| 1978 | 100 | #1,245 | — | — |
| 1977 | 104 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 1976 | 113 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 1975 | 119 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 1974 | 105 | #1,111 | — | — |
| 1973 | 115 | #1,020 | — | — |
| 1972 | 127 | #961 | — | — |
| 1971 | 127 | #990 | — | — |
| 1970 | 187 | #769 | — | — |
| 1969 | 175 | #769 | — | — |
| 1968 | 194 | #698 | — | — |
| 1967 | 228 | #631 | — | — |
| 1966 | 292 | #554 | — | — |
| 1965 | 361 | #501 | — | — |
| 1964 | 389 | #495 | — | — |
| 1963 | 385 | #495 | — | — |
| 1962 | 461 | #447 | — | — |
| 1961 | 507 | #439 | — | — |
| 1960 | 518 | #430 | — | — |
| 1959 | 555 | #398 | — | — |
| 1958 | 610 | #369 | — | — |
| 1957 | 680 | #347 | — | — |
| 1956 | 654 | #343 | — | — |
| 1955 | 721 | #319 | — | — |
| 1954 | 789 | #300 | — | — |
| 1953 | 832 | #287 | — | — |
| 1952 | 841 | #278 | — | — |
| 1951 | 848 | #270 | 5 | #4,055 |
| 1950 | 904 | #250 | — | — |
| 1949 | 900 | #254 | — | — |
| 1948 | 915 | #247 | — | — |
| 1947 | 853 | #258 | — | — |
| 1946 | 800 | #252 | — | — |
| 1945 | 692 | #254 | — | — |
| 1944 | 762 | #236 | — | — |
| 1943 | 846 | #231 | — | — |
| 1942 | 813 | #236 | — | — |
| 1941 | 778 | #224 | 5 | #3,825 |
| 1940 | 757 | #220 | — | — |
| 1939 | 768 | #216 | 5 | #3,793 |
| 1938 | 826 | #209 | — | — |
| 1937 | 805 | #205 | — | — |
| 1936 | 792 | #209 | — | — |
| 1935 | 829 | #207 | — | — |
| 1934 | 933 | #188 | 5 | #4,005 |
| 1933 | 895 | #190 | — | — |
| 1932 | 1,000 | #182 | 5 | #4,102 |
| 1931 | 1,191 | #157 | — | — |
| 1930 | 1,289 | #159 | 9 | #2,927 |
| 1929 | 1,361 | #155 | 10 | #2,700 |
| 1928 | 1,584 | #147 | — | — |
| 1927 | 1,695 | #143 | 6 | #4,033 |
| 1926 | 1,869 | #137 | 6 | #4,023 |
| 1925 | 2,061 | #132 | 8 | #3,303 |
| 1924 | 2,249 | #125 | — | — |
| 1923 | 2,357 | #115 | — | — |
| 1922 | 2,657 | #106 | — | — |
| 1921 | 2,897 | #98 | — | — |
| 1920 | 3,055 | #93 | 5 | #4,710 |
| 1919 | 2,836 | #96 | 6 | #4,013 |
| 1918 | 3,249 | #86 | 5 | #4,569 |
| 1917 | 3,161 | #78 | — | — |
| 1916 | 3,034 | #78 | 5 | #4,277 |
| 1915 | 2,687 | #85 | — | — |
| 1914 | 2,050 | #84 | 5 | #3,578 |
| 1913 | 1,822 | #78 | 5 | #3,100 |
| 1912 | 1,620 | #79 | — | — |
| 1911 | 1,113 | #87 | — | — |
| 1910 | 1,086 | #84 | — | — |
| 1909 | 1,036 | #81 | — | — |
| 1908 | 913 | #88 | — | — |
| 1907 | 888 | #87 | 6 | #1,289 |
| 1906 | 791 | #89 | — | — |
| 1905 | 753 | #90 | — | — |
| 1904 | 684 | #94 | — | — |
| 1903 | 667 | #91 | — | — |
| 1902 | 695 | #90 | — | — |
| 1901 | 699 | #83 | — | — |
| 1900 | 786 | #86 | — | — |
| 1899 | 693 | #83 | — | — |
| 1898 | 800 | #79 | — | — |
| 1897 | 728 | #78 | — | — |
| 1896 | 725 | #78 | — | — |
| 1895 | 680 | #81 | — | — |
| 1894 | 624 | #83 | — | — |
| 1893 | 638 | #79 | — | — |
| 1892 | 535 | #91 | — | — |
| 1891 | 511 | #84 | — | — |
| 1890 | 442 | #96 | — | — |
| 1889 | 315 | #120 | — | — |
| 1888 | 235 | #141 | — | — |
| 1887 | 178 | #146 | — | — |
| 1886 | 125 | #181 | — | — |
| 1885 | 86 | #211 | — | — |
| 1884 | 95 | #184 | — | — |
| 1883 | 70 | #209 | — | — |
| 1882 | 52 | #239 | — | — |
| 1881 | 52 | #212 | — | — |
| 1880 | 48 | #224 | — | — |
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).