Margarethe
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maɡaʁeːtʰə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Margarethe is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 93K(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 10K
- NLNetherlands1 in 11K
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
- 46 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
2,277 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Margarethe 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 | 2,277 | 1 in 93K | 2.3K | Margarethe | 46 |
| NL Netherlands | 1,537 | 1 in 11K | 1.5K | Margarethe | 2 |
| AT Austria | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 153 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 468 | 1 in 22K | 468 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 257 | 1 in 1.3M | 257 | Margarethe | 18 |
| FI Finland | 75 | 1 in 74K | 196 | — | 1 |
2,277 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); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Marguerite de Rohanb. 1617FRnot in their usual nameFrench duchess (1617-1684)
- Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austriab. 1870HUarchduchess of Austria (1870–1955)
- Princess Margaret of Prussiab. 1872DEnot in their usual nameGerman imperial princess, Prussian princess (1872–1954); youngest child of Frederick III, German Emperor, and Victoria, Princess Royal
- Margarethe Kahnb. 1880DEGerman mathematician and Holocaust victim (1880–1942)
- Princess Victoria Margaret of Prussiab. 1890DEnot in their usual namePrussian princess (1890-1923)
- La Janab. 1905ATnot in their usual nameAustro-German dancer and actress (1905–1940)
- Princess Christina Margarethe of Hesseb. 1933DEeldest daughter of Prince Christoph of Hesse and Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark
- Margarethe von Trottab. 1942DEGerman film director (born 1942)
- Margarethe Schreinemakersb. 1958DEGerman television presenter
- Margarethe Tieselb. 1959ATAustrian 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).
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 33 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 2.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.3K | #4,685 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 2.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 2K | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 1.7K | #3,146 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.6K | #6,731 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 1.5K | #988 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 1.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 984 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 540 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 468 | #2,903 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 461 | #3,372 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- How do you pronounce Margarethe?
- A machine transcription gives /maɡaʁeːtʰə/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Margarethe a male or female name?
- Margarethe 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 Margarethe?
- In the etymology graph, Margaret, Margarita and Megan are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Margarethe have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Margarethe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled margarethe.
- How common is the name Margarethe?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,277 people named Margarethe in 2022, about 1 in 93 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Margarethe?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/margaretheThe 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, “Margarethe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.