Margarete
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Greek margarites 'pearl'; source of Faule Grete
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɐɾɡaɾɛte/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Margarete is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 5.1K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 151K
- ATAustria≈1 in 3.6K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 126 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
41,822 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Greek margarites 'pearl'; source of Faule Grete
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Margarete 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #480 | 41,822 | 1 in 5.1K | 48K | Margarete | 126 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 157 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 2,201 | 1 in 151K | 2.2K | Margarete | 97 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 701 | 1 in 25K | 691 | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 651 | 1 in 16K | 651 | — | 3 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 31K | listed | Margarete | 32 |
41,822 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the portuguese-names-barbosa-1990 register; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Margarete is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, ) Margareta; Margarita; (äl tere Schreibungen:) Margarethe; Margaretha: weibl. Vom. lateinischer Herkunft (lat. mar- ganta »Perle« aus griech. margarites »Perle«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In German, from Greek margarites, 'pearl'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, from Greek margaritēs 'pearl'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Archduchess Margaretha, Archduchess Karl Ludwig of Austriab. 1840DEnot in their usual nameAustrian Imperial and Saxon Royal (1840-1858)
- Margarete Himmlerb. 1893DEGerman nurse, wife of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler (1893–1967)
- Margarete Adlerb. 1896ATAustrian swimmer, diver, and gymnast (1896-1990)
- Margarete Schütte-Lihotzkyb. 1897ATAustrian architect (1897–2000)
- Grete Hermannb. 1901DEnot in their usual nameGerman mathematician (1901–1984)
- Margarete Buber-Neumannb. 1901DEGerman writer (1909-1989)
- Ilse Kochb. 1906DEnot in their usual nameGerman war criminal, wife of camp commandant Karl-Otto Koch (1906–1967)
- Gretl Braunb. 1915DEnot in their usual namesister of Eva Braun (1915-1987); sister-in-law of Adolf Hitler
- Maria Schellb. 1926ATnot in their usual nameAustrian-Swiss actress (1926–2005)
- Gudrun Burwitzb. 1929DEnot in their usual nameGerman Neo-Nazi and daughter of SS chief Heinrich Himmler (1929-2018)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 50 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 48K | #803 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 48K | #302 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 42K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 42K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 42K | #646 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 42K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.2K | #7,051 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 691 | #1,653 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 651 | #2,289 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 196 | #5,525 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 157 | #872 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 144 | #646 |
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 Margarete mean, and where does it come from?
- from Greek margarites 'pearl'; source of Faule Grete Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Margarete?
- In the etymology graph, Margaret, Rita and Margarita are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Margarete?
- A machine transcription gives /mɐɾɡaɾɛte/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Margarete a male or female name?
- Margarete 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 Margarete have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 42 thousand people named Margarete, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled margarete.
- How common is the name Margarete?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 41,822 people named Margarete in 2022, about 1 in 5.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Margarete compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Margarete is the 480th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/margareteThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Margarete” — the 480th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.