Margarett
Feminine · “pearl”
Daisy is a nickname for Margaret, and it is the only English nickname that works by translation. The French for the flower is marguerite, which is also the French for Margaret, so English families took the flower's English name as a pet form. No other name does this.
How old is the name Margarett?
Margarett was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Margarett alive today was born around 1936, making them about 89 years old. About 2,000 people named Margarett are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Margarett most popular?
Margarett peaked in 1932, reaching #670 nationally. Today it ranks #11932, 11,262 places below that high. See the whole 1932 chart.
Where it comes from
From margarites to Margarett
The story of Margarett
The pet forms of Margaret are a museum of how English makes them. Meg is the first syllable clipped; Peg comes from Meg by the medieval habit of swapping the opening consonant for a rhyming one, the same process that turned Mary into Molly and then Polly, and Rob into Bob. Daisy comes from French. Madge, Marge, Rita, Greta, Maisie and Margery all belong to the same name, which means one woman could plausibly be called any of eight things. Behind all of it is the saint: a Margaret said to have been swallowed by a dragon and to have burst out of it, which made her a patron of childbirth and one of the voices Joan of Arc reported hearing.
Meaning
pearl
Greek margarites, a pearl, through Latin margarita. English Margaret has been in continuous use since the Norman period. The doubled t at the end of this spelling is American and changes nothing you can hear; the standard English form has one.
How the name formed
- margarites
- margarita
- Margaret
- Margarett
Related forms: Mairead · Mairead · Margrethe
Pronouncing Margarett
MAR-guh-rit
Three syllables, stress on the first, with the last two reduced almost to nothing. The doubled t is silent decoration; Margaret and Margarett are identical in speech.
Nicknames for Margarett
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What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 1923113 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #670reached in 1932
- Change vs 2022
- −22.2%7 in 2025, from 9
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Margarett in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Mairead in Scottish — same name
- Mairead in Irish — same name
- Margrethe in Danish — same name
Margaretts among us
people named Margarett are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 229,610 born in 2025 was named Margarett
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Margarett
- #11932
- Margarett on the 2025 chart
- #121
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Margarett went to 7 girls in 2025, but Margaret is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 2,443, which makes it the 121st most-given girls’ name of the year — 11,811 places above the chart.
- Margaret2,436
- Margarett7
About 1 girl in 658 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 229,610 for Margarett itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Zenobia test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Margarett's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Zenobia climbed just as high around 1909, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Zenobia's path sketches the road Margarett is walking now.
Margarett sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Margarett beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Margarett in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- More short forms than almost any other English name, several of them full names on their own.
- A settled meaning naming something concrete and valuable.
- Continuous English use for nine hundred years.
- Margaret is the standard spelling and the doubled t will be dropped by everyone.
- It is strongly represented among the oldest generations and reads clearly as of their time.
- The short forms are so numerous and so different that a child may be called several things at once.
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Frequently asked
- How many Margaretts are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,000 people named Margarett are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Margarett?
- Margarett is one of 2 recorded spellings. Margaret is the more common one — 2,436 births in 2025 against 7 for Margarett.
- How popular is the name Margarett in 2025?
- Margarett ranks #11932 among US girl names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Margarett?
- About 1 in every 229,610 US girls born in 2025 was named Margarett — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Margarett with classmates?
- Margarett will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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