Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
Origin: EnglishMargaret is a feminine given name, which means "pearl". It is of Latin origin, via Ancient Greek and ultimately from Old Iranian. It has been an English name since the 11th century, and remained popular throughout the Middle Ages.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Margaret yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
At 1,266,052 births, Margaret is the largest name across all four of these batches — more than a quarter of a million ahead of Sarah. Rank 3 came in 1891; the busiest single year was 1921, at 28,468 births. What makes it remarkable is the present tense: up 18% across ten years, reaching 2,303 births and rank 119. Almost nothing else with this much historical weight is currently growing. The bearers are formidable — Margaret Thatcher, born 1925, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Mead, Margaret Mitchell — and Sally Field, born 1946, appears through her middle name. Margaret's advantage is its supply of usable short forms; Maggie, Peggy, Meg and Greta let one formal name serve several quite different registers.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 1,578 | #6 |
| 1881 | 1,658 | #5 |
| 1882 | 1,821 | #6 |
| 1883 | 1,881 | #6 |
| 1884 | 2,142 | #6 |
| 1885 | 2,204 | #5 |
| 1886 | 2,275 | #6 |
| 1887 | 2,419 | #5 |
| 1888 | 2,904 | #5 |
| 1889 | 2,917 | #4 |
| 1890 | 3,100 | #4 |
| 1891 | 3,065 | #3 |
| 1892 | 3,435 | #4 |
| 1893 | 3,565 | #4 |
| 1894 | 3,700 | #3 |
| 1895 | 3,931 | #4 |
| 1896 | 4,050 | #4 |
| 1897 | 4,146 | #4 |
| 1898 | 4,696 | #4 |
| 1899 | 4,249 | #4 |
| 1900 | 5,304 | #4 |
| 1901 | 4,424 | #4 |
| 1902 | 5,011 | #4 |
| 1903 | 5,045 | #4 |
| 1904 | 5,302 | #4 |
| 1905 | 5,690 | #3 |
| 1906 | 6,096 | #3 |
| 1907 | 6,713 | #3 |
| 1908 | 6,976 | #3 |
| 1909 | 7,358 | #3 |
| 1910 | 8,226 | #3 |
| 1911 | 9,279 | #3 |
| 1912 | 12,536 | #4 |
| 1913 | 14,486 | #4 |
| 1914 | 17,763 | #4 |
| 1915 | 23,054 | #4 |
| 1916 | 24,953 | #4 |
| 1917 | 25,560 | #4 |
| 1918 | 27,139 | #4 |
| 1919 | 26,238 | #4 |
| 1920 | 27,994 | #4 |
| 1921 | 28,468 | #4 |
| 1922 | 26,862 | #4 |
| 1923 | 26,135 | #4 |
| 1924 | 26,546 | #5 |
| 1925 | 24,462 | #5 |
| 1926 | 23,073 | #5 |
| 1927 | 21,964 | #5 |
| 1928 | 20,295 | #5 |
| 1929 | 19,211 | #5 |
| 1930 | 18,351 | #5 |
| 1931 | 17,332 | #7 |
| 1932 | 16,556 | #7 |
| 1933 | 15,240 | #7 |
| 1934 | 15,145 | #8 |
| 1935 | 14,727 | #8 |
| 1936 | 14,596 | #9 |
| 1937 | 15,143 | #10 |
| 1938 | 15,330 | #9 |
| 1939 | 14,951 | #10 |
| 1940 | 15,062 | #11 |
| 1941 | 15,695 | #12 |
| 1942 | 16,548 | #14 |
| 1943 | 17,153 | #14 |
| 1944 | 16,320 | #14 |
| 1945 | 15,685 | #15 |
| 1946 | 18,135 | #17 |
| 1947 | 20,102 | #16 |
| 1948 | 18,873 | #13 |
| 1949 | 19,452 | #14 |
| 1950 | 18,110 | #15 |
| 1951 | 17,692 | #17 |
| 1952 | 17,101 | #21 |
| 1953 | 16,196 | #20 |
| 1954 | 15,226 | #21 |
| 1955 | 14,440 | #24 |
| 1956 | 13,914 | #25 |
| 1957 | 13,013 | #29 |
| 1958 | 12,314 | #31 |
| 1959 | 11,577 | #36 |
| 1960 | 11,362 | #36 |
| 1961 | 10,560 | #40 |
| 1962 | 10,073 | #43 |
| 1963 | 9,308 | #46 |
| 1964 | 9,100 | #49 |
| 1965 | 7,796 | #52 |
| 1966 | 6,961 | #55 |
| 1967 | 6,226 | #58 |
| 1968 | 5,440 | #63 |
| 1969 | 5,043 | #73 |
| 1970 | 4,704 | #80 |
| 1971 | 4,001 | #86 |
| 1972 | 3,286 | #95 |
| 1973 | 3,167 | #94 |
| 1974 | 3,087 | #95 |
| 1975 | 2,950 | #98 |
| 1976 | 2,666 | #103 |
| 1977 | 2,624 | #111 |
| 1978 | 2,629 | #110 |
| 1979 | 2,832 | #108 |
| 1980 | 2,861 | #105 |
| 1981 | 2,791 | #107 |
| 1982 | 2,997 | #97 |
| 1983 | 2,944 | #92 |
| 1984 | 3,034 | #92 |
| 1985 | 3,071 | #90 |
| 1986 | 3,085 | #89 |
| 1987 | 3,146 | #90 |
| 1988 | 3,138 | #93 |
| 1989 | 3,285 | #97 |
| 1990 | 3,372 | #102 |
| 1991 | 3,195 | #108 |
| 1992 | 3,242 | #102 |
| 1993 | 3,168 | #102 |
| 1994 | 3,105 | #106 |
| 1995 | 3,221 | #104 |
| 1996 | 3,103 | #105 |
| 1997 | 2,967 | #110 |
| 1998 | 2,962 | #114 |
| 1999 | 2,958 | #110 |
| 2000 | 3,122 | #110 |
| 2001 | 2,896 | #118 |
| 2002 | 2,678 | #129 |
| 2003 | 2,625 | #128 |
| 2004 | 2,436 | #133 |
| 2005 | 2,312 | #151 |
| 2006 | 2,188 | #160 |
| 2007 | 2,027 | #173 |
| 2008 | 1,864 | #178 |
| 2009 | 1,767 | #188 |
| 2010 | 1,701 | #182 |
| 2011 | 1,699 | #186 |
| 2012 | 1,780 | #176 |
| 2013 | 1,774 | #180 |
| 2014 | 1,951 | #169 |
| 2015 | 2,110 | #155 |
| 2016 | 2,216 | #139 |
| 2017 | 2,255 | #132 |
| 2018 | 2,334 | #127 |
| 2019 | 2,214 | #127 |
| 2020 | 2,195 | #126 |
| 2021 | 2,242 | #125 |
| 2022 | 2,197 | #127 |
| 2023 | 2,083 | #132 |
| 2024 | 2,303 | #119 |
