Margot
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in French: French diminutive of Marguerite, from Greek margarites 'pearl'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maɾɡot/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Margot is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 3.2K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 4.2K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 321 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
French diminutive of Marguerite, from Greek margarites 'pearl'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
How Margot is read(measured from records)
Margot is one spelling over 4 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.
- Spanish38%
French hypocoristic of Margarita.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- French22%
French diminutive of Marguerite, from Greek margarites 'pearl'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Une margot peut désigner la pie, une poupée, une femme bavarde et une femme de mauvaise vie.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
Diminutif de Marguerite, d’origine latine; « perle ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- English22%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Margot in English.
- German10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Margot in German.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Margot 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Margot | 10 |
| FR France | #355 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 50K | Margot | 321 |
| US United States | — | 15,538 | 1 in 21K | 16K | Margot | 207 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Margot | 19 |
| SE Sweden | — | 3,114 | 1 in 3.3K | 3.1K | Margot | 9 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | 124 | Margot | 79 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | 122 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
Margot is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
French pet form of ) Marguerite, now used as an independent given name. In England it is still usually pronounced in the French way, but in Eastern Europe the final consonant is sounded, and this has had some influence in America.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Swedish, Margot är ursprungligen en fransk diminutivform av → Margareta. En känd svensk namnbärare är politikern Margot Wallström (f. 1954). I den rikssvenska almanackan 15 juni.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Margot Asquithb. 1864GBBritish socialite, author and wit (1864-1945)
- Erika Dannhoffb. 1909DEnot in their usual nameGerman actress (1909-1996)
- Margot Fonteynb. 1919GBBritish ballerina
- Margot Hielscherb. 1919DEGerman singer and film actress (1919–2017)
- Margot Frankb. 1926DEolder sister of Anne Frank (1926–1945)
- Margot Honeckerb. 1927CLEast German politician (1927-2016)
- Margot Wallströmb. 1954SESwedish politician
- Margot Lee Shetterlyb. 1969USAmerican nonfiction writer
- Margot Binghamb. 1987USAmerican singer, actor and composer
- Margot Robbieb. 1990AUAustralian actress (born 1990)
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 94 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 50K | #47 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 16K | #1,855 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3.1K | #813 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 2.6K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 1.8K | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 122 | #1,868 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 61 | #138 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 26 | #1,855 |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 are other forms of the name Margot?
- In the etymology graph, Margaret, Rita and Margarita are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Margot a male or female name?
- Margot 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 do you pronounce Margot?
- A machine transcription gives /maɾɡot/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Margot mean, and where does it come from?
- French diminutive of Marguerite, from Greek margarites 'pearl'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- In which country does Margot have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Margot in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled margot.
- How common is the name Margot?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,538 people named Margot in 2020, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
- How common is Margot compared with other names?
- In France, Margot is the 355th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Margot?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/margotThe 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, “Margot” — the 355th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.