Margarita
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Latin Margarita “pearl”, from Greek μαργαρίτης; maybe from Persian or Sanskrit forms
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Margarita is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Venezuela it is the 23rd most common given name.
- CLChile≈1 in 390(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 398
- ARArgentina≈1 in 486
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Margarita itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #153 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 438 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 390 (inferred from the name graph)
549,715 named Margaret, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Маргарита in RU Russia and Margareta in SE Sweden.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Greekμαργαρίτης(measured from records)
- Persianor(measured from records)
Latin Margarita “pearl”, from Greek μαργαρίτης; maybe from Persian or Sanskrit forms.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
How Margarita is read(measured from records)
Margarita is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish79%
Latin Margarita “pearl”, from Greek μαργαρίτης; maybe from Persian or Sanskrit forms.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
daisy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English9.8%
A cocktail made with tequila, an orange-flavoured liqueur, and lemon or lime juice, often served with salt encrusted on the rim of the glass.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
cocktail; pers. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Spanish; a pearl
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The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Margarita 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #810 | 549,715as Margaret | 1 in 605 | 549K | Margarita | 438 |
| RU Russia | #69 | ≈400,000 est. | ≈1 in 359 | #38 | Маргарита | 197 |
| SE Sweden | — | 198,622as Margareta | 1 in 51 | 199K | Margareta | 31 |
| AR Argentina | #122 | ≈94,000 est. | ≈1 in 486 | 692 | Margarita | 127 |
| ES Spain | #94 | 80,835 | 1 in 619 | 85K | Margarita | 193 |
| PE Peru | #48 | ≈80,000 est. | ≈1 in 398 | — | Margarita | 94 |
| CL Chile | #36 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 390 | 63 | Margarita | 129 |
| BG Bulgaria | #64 | 25,517as Маргарита | 1 in 273 | 26K | Margarita | 126 |
| VE Venezuela | #23 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Margarita | 77 |
549,715 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling margaret. 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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); NSI — most common given names (population). 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)
Margarita is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, do gr. margarítes, pérola; sobrenome matronímico
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Saint Pelagiab. 400TRnot in their usual nameAntiochene saint
- Margarita Mazab. 1826MXFirst Lady of Mexico (1826–1871)
- Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmarkb. 1905GRGreco-Danish Royal and German Noble
- Margarita Iosifovna Aligerb. 1915UASoviet poet, translator, and journalist (1915–1992)
- Rita Hayworthb. 1918USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1918–1987)
- Margarita Lozanob. 1931ESSpanish actress (1931-2022)
- Princess Margarita of Badenb. 1932DEdaughter of Berthold, Margrave of Baden, and Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1932–2013)
- Queen Sofía of Spainb. 1938ESnot in their usual namequeen consort of Spain from 1975 to 2014
- Margarita Levievab. 1980USRussian-born American actress
- Margarita Simonyanb. 1980RURussian journalist
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 113 sources across 54 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 93K | #570 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 85K | #59 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 81K | #116 |
| BG Bulgaria | NSI — most common given names (population) | 2018 | 26K | #13 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.2K | #1,493 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 692 | #208 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 590 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 294 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 294 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 252 | #570 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 104 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 63 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Margarita mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin Margarita “pearl”, from Greek μαργαρίτης; maybe from Persian or Sanskrit forms. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- In which country does Margarita have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 550 thousand people named Margaret, more than in any other country we hold.
- What are other forms of the name Margarita?
- In the etymology graph, Margaret, Rita and Megan are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Margarita a male or female name?
- Margarita 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.
- How common is the name Margarita?
- In Spain, the national register counted 80,835 people named Margarita, about 1 in 619 residents.
- How common is Margarita compared with other names?
- In the United States, Margarita is the 810th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/margaritaThe 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, “Margarita” — the 810th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.