Margeret
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/maɾɠeɾet/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Margeret is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 62nd most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 51as Margareta(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 128as Margrét
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 220as Margaret
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 Margeret itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #135 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 604 (measured from records)
- 1 in 51 (inferred from the name graph)
549,715 named Margaret, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden, as Margareta
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Margaret in US United States, GB United Kingdom, SE Sweden and 5 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Margeret 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 | #62 | 549,715as Margaret | 1 in 605 | 549K | Margaret | 604 |
| GB United Kingdom | #36 | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 222 | 15 | Margaret | 342 |
| NG Nigeria | #343 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Margaret | 102 |
| SE Sweden | — | 198,622as Margareta | 1 in 51 | 199K | Margaret | 69 |
| CA Canada | #68 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 407 | 14 | Margaret | 274 |
| IE Ireland | #28 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 252 | 32 | Margaret | 155 |
| NZ New Zealand | #38 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 292 | 20 | Margaret | 160 |
| IS Iceland | #40 | 2,738as Margrét | 1 in 128 | 3K | Margaret | 24 |
549,715 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005). 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)- Margeret Lurieb. 1999ILbadminton player
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.3K | #10,490 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1918 | 38 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1920 | 30 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1924 | 29 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1926 | 26 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1919 | 26 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1917 | 26 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1923 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1931 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1930 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1929 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1927 | 21 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Margeret?
- In Swahili /maɾɠeɾet/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Margeret a male or female name?
- Margeret is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Margeret 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.
- Where is Margeret most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Margeret itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Sweden's: the national register counts about 1 in 51 people named Margareta.
- How common is the name Margeret?
- In the United States, the national register counted 549,715 people named Margaret in 2020, about 1 in 605 residents.
- How common is Margeret compared with other names?
- In the United States, Margeret is the 62nd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Margeret?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/margeretThe 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, “Margeret” — the 62nd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.