Marguerite
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Marguerite is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 85th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Latin Margarita ‘pearl’.
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 3.4K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 4K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 422 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈41,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Latin Margarita ‘pearl’. Cited as a recent, newly coined/non-inflecting source for surnames.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marguerite 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #287 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 271K | Marguerite | 291 |
| US United States | #732 | 27,427 | 1 in 12K | 27K | Marguerite | 422 |
| CM Cameroon | #220 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Marguerite | 23 |
| GB United Kingdom | #676 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | 3 | Marguerite | 150 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Marguerite | 20 |
| BE Belgium | #222 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 49 | Marguerite | 61 |
| IE Ireland | #317 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Marguerite | 70 |
| JM Jamaica | #85 | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Marguerite | 5 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Marguerite 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 French, From Latin; originally meant “pearl.” Commonly also the name of a daisy-like flower.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In French, French given name; standard form, contrasted with the surname Margueritte in older spelling.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
From Greek. See Margaret and }Marguerite in main dictionary. Marianne ° Blend of marie and ANNE, used as the name of the female figure symbolizing the French Republic.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In French, a female given name, equivalent to English Margaret
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Du grec ancien margaritēs, « perle ». Fête: 16 novembre (sainte Marguerite d’Écosse) et 20 juillet (sainte Marguerite de Vercelli).
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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)
- Margaret of Anjoub. 1430FRnot in their usual name15th-century English royal consort (1430-1482)
- Marguerite de Valois-Angoulêmeb. 1492FRqueen consort of Navarre (1492–1549)
- Margaret of Valoisb. 1553FRnot in their usual nameQueen of France and Navarre until 1599 (1553-1615).
- Marguerite Louise d'Orléansb. 1645FRFrench princess (1645-1721)
- Marguerite Longb. 1874FRFrench musician
- Queen Elizabeth The Queen Motherb. 1900GBnot in their usual nameQueen consort of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952 (1900–2002)
- Marguerite Yourcenarb. 1903USFrench novelist and essayist (1903-1987)
- Germaine Tillionb. 1907FRnot in their usual nameFrench anthropologist (1907 - 2008)
- Maggie McNamarab. 1928USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1928-1978)
- Princess Caroline of Monacob. 1957MCnot in their usual nameeldest child of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, and Grace Kelly
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 74 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 271K | #579 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 27K | #1,330 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 71 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 20 | #1,330 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 7 | #1,036 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1951 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 1990 | 3 | #615 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2012 | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Marguerite come from?
- From Latin Margarita ‘pearl’. Cited as a recent, newly coined/non-inflecting source for surnames. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- What does the name Marguerite mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Latin Margarita ‘pearl’.
- What are other forms of the name Marguerite?
- In the etymology graph, Margaret, Rita and Margarita are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Marguerite a male or female name?
- Marguerite 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 Marguerite have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 41 thousand people named Marguerite in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marguerite.
- How common is the name Marguerite?
- In the United States, the national register counted 27,427 people named Marguerite in 2020, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Marguerite compared with other names?
- In France, Marguerite is the 287th most common given name of 754,146 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, “Marguerite” — the 287th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.