Margaret Girl
How popular is Margaret?
#112 girl name in 2025
2,436 baby girls were named Margaret in the US in 2025, making it the 112th most popular girl name.
Margaret popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #112 for girls (▲ 7 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 2,436 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+15% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #155 in 2015, #126 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1921 (28,468 girls) |
| Highest rank | #3 in 1891 (9 years at that rank) |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Margaret counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Margaret family of names ranked #134 for girls in 2025 (#148 the year before), with 2,462 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Margaret | 2,436 | 99% |
| Margarette | 12 | 0% |
| Margarett | 7 | 0% |
| Margarete | 7 | 0% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Margaret is most popular
Babies named Margaret per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- District of Columbia: 8.4 per 1,000 (100 girls)
- Vermont: 7.8 per 1,000 (38 girls)
- Maine: 4.1 per 1,000 (64 girls)
- New Hampshire: 4.1 per 1,000 (75 girls)
- Alabama: 3.6 per 1,000 (337 girls)
Margaret by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 21,799 | #4 |
| 1890s | 37,937 | #3 |
| 1900s | 57,919 | #3 |
| 1910s | 189,234 | #3 |
| 1920s | 245,011 | #4 |
| 1930s | 157,369 | #5 |
| 1940s | 173,028 | #11 |
| 1950s | 149,582 | #15 |
| 1960s | 81,870 | #36 |
| 1970s | 31,947 | #80 |
| 1980s | 30,352 | #89 |
| 1990s | 31,294 | #102 |
| 2000s | 23,919 | #110 |
| 2010s | 20,036 | #127 |
| 2020s | 13,477 | #112 |
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Questions
- Is Margaret a boy or girl name?
- Margaret is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Margaret were girls.
- How popular is the name Margaret?
- 2,436 baby girls were named Margaret in the US in 2025, making it the 112th most popular girl name.
- When was Margaret most popular?
- Margaret peaked in 1921, when 28,468 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #3, held for 9 years starting in 1891.
- How many people are named Margaret?
- 1,268,519 babies have been named Margaret in the US since 1880. We estimate about 502,041 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 69.
- Where is Margaret most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Margaret was most common in District of Columbia, at 8.4 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.