Margarite
Margarite is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 958th, in 1913.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192552 births
- Best rank
- #958in 1913
- Since 1888
- 1,920people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,920 girls have been named Margarite in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1925, with 52 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 52 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1932, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Margarite | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 60 | |
| 1900s | 90 | |
| 1910s | 318 | |
| 1920s | 413 | |
| 1930s | 257 | |
| 1940s | 212 | |
| 1950s | 227 | |
| 1960s | 146 | |
| 1970s | 74 | |
| 1980s | 50 | |
| 1990s | 48 | |
| 2000s | 15 | |
| 2010s | 5 |
In 1925, its biggest year
Margarite was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1925 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1925.
Names that rose and fell with Margarite
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Palmapeak 1925
- Colettapeak 1924
- Enidpeak 1920
- Ruthpeak 1920
- Corenepeak 1922
- Claricepeak 1921
- Laurinepeak 1918
- Rebapeak 1925
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.