Margareta

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Margareta is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 70th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Greek 'pearl'.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 51(measured from records)
  • RORomania≈1 in 1.8K
  • FIFinland1 in 562

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

198,622 people

Sources
119 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 51 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Greek 'pearl'

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Margareta counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Margareta is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#70198,6221 in 51199KMargareta119
RO Romania#336≈12,000 est.≈1 in 1.8K—Margareta49
FI Finland—9,9061 in 56222KMargareta22
BJ Benin#155≈2,600 est.≈1 in 5K—Margareta5
MD Moldova#3522,4861 in 1.4K2.5KMargareta20
HR Croatia—1,7341 in 2.4K1.7K——

198,622 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); e-services.md — living population register; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Margareta is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Margaréta, Margaret-A, Margaretae, Margarèta, Märgareta

  • Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Sweden, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Margareta', 'Margareta

  • Czech given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia, United States, Sweden

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Margaréta

  • Polish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Sweden, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Margaréta

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Margaréta

52 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Margareta is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, weibl. Vom., Nebenform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Norwegian, a female given name, equivalent to English Margaret, rare in this official form

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Romanian, a surname originating as a matronymic

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Urāna pavadonis ("Margaret"), vidējais attālums no planētas - 14345000 km, izmēri - 20 km

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

0500100015002000Margaret the Virgin, b. 292Margaret of France, b. 1282Margaret III, Countess of Flanders, b. 1350Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy, b. 1480Margaret Tudor, b. 1489Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain, b. 1584Ingrid of Sweden, b. 1910Margareta of Romania, b. 1949Princess Nathalie of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, b. 1975Princess Claire of Luxembourg, b. 1985

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 57 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Margareta
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—199K#7
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—22K#114
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202022K—
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—9.9K—
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—2.5K#243
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20211.7K#403
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20211.4K—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—20#20,046

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Margareta mean, and where does it come from?
Greek 'pearl' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
Is Margareta a male or female name?
Margareta is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Margareta have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 199 thousand people named Margareta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled margareta.
Where is Margareta most common?
Margareta is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 51 people carrying it.
What are other forms of the name Margareta?
In the etymology graph, Margaret, Rita and Margarita are forms of the same name in other languages; Reeta, Mette and Gretel are recorded short or pet forms.
How common is the name Margareta?
In Sweden, the national register counted 198,622 people named Margareta, about 1 in 51 residents.
How common is Margareta compared with other names?
In Sweden, Margareta is the 70th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Margareta” — the 70th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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