Margotta
surname · Latin script
Meaning: perhaps from the French female personal name Margot, a pet form of Marguerite (see Margeson)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɑɹɡoʊtə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Margotta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 840K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 1.3M
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 840K (inferred from the name graph)
247 people, 2010
Reference-verified
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
perhaps from the French female personal name Margot, a pet form of Marguerite (see Margeson).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Margotta 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 | 247 | 1 in 1.3M | 247 | Margotta | 8 |
| AR Argentina | 33 | 1 in 1.4M | 33 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 9 | 1 in 1.3M | 9 | — | 2 |
| FR France | — | — | — | Margotta | 8 |
247 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)
Margotta 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, layering
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 247 | #77,522 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 229 | #77,742 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 225 | #88,580 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 33 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 9 | #77,187 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Margotta mean, and where does it come from?
- perhaps from the French female personal name Margot, a pet form of Marguerite (see Margeson). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Margotta?
- A machine transcription gives /mɑɹɡoʊtə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Margotta have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 247 people named Margotta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled margotta.
- Where is Margotta most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Margotta is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 840 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Margotta?
- In the United States, the national register counted 247 people named Margotta in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Margotta?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/margottaThe 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, “Margotta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.