Margarida
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Margarida is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Portugal it is the 45th most common given name. Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Margaret.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 259(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 2.4K
- ESSpain1 in 26K
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
- 177 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 259 (inferred from the name graph)
87,198 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name, equivalent to English Margaret
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Margarida 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 | #191 | 87,198 | 1 in 2.4K | 115K | Margarida | 135 |
| PT Portugal | #45 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 259 | 586 | Margarida | 177 |
| AO Angola | #71 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 4 | Margarida | 31 |
| MZ Mozambique | — | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 1 | — | 18 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,898 | 1 in 26K | 2K | Margarida | 68 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 7 | Margarida | 37 |
87,198 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); IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Margaret of Clermontb. 1104not in their usual namepolitician
- Margaret of Flanders, Duchess of Brabantb. 1251not in their usual nameDuchess of Brabant (1251-1285)
- Margaret of Brienneb. 1370FRnot in their usual nameFrench noble
- Margaret of Pradesb. 1390ESnot in their usual namequeen consort of Aragon
- Margaret of Brittanyb. 1443FRnot in their usual nameduchess by birth and duchess consort of Brittany
- Margarida Carpinteirob. 1943PTPortuguese actor and writer
- Margarida Minguillón i Aranb. 1947ESSpanish actor
- Margarida Cardosob. 1963PTPortuguese film director and screenwriter
- Anna Abreub. 1990FInot in their usual nameFinnish-Portuguese singer
- Margarida Corceirob. 2002PTPortuguese actress
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 49 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 115K | #421 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 115K | #140 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 87K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 87K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 87K | #356 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 87K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 86K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 85K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 81K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 72K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 50K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 25K | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Margarida mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Margaret Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Margarida a male or female name?
- Margarida 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.
- What are other forms of the name Margarida?
- In the etymology graph, Margaret, Rita and Margarita are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Margarida have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 87 thousand people named Margarida, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled margarida.
- How common is the name Margarida?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 87,198 people named Margarida in 2022, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Margarida compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Margarida is the 191st 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/margaridaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Margarida” — the 191st most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.