Margarita
Feminine · “pearl”
Margarita is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 40,219 girls against 199 boys since 1880.
Margarita is the pearl in Spanish, and it is also the daisy — the flower named for the pearl at its center. The word traveled from Persia to Greek to Latin to every European language.
How old is the name Margarita?
Margarita was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Margarita alive today was born around 1966, making them about 59 years old. About 30,500 people named Margarita are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Margarita most popular?
Margarita peaked in 1950, reaching #334 nationally. Today it ranks #1880, 1,546 places below that high. See the whole 1950 chart.
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Where it comes from
From margarites to Margarita
The story of Margarita
Margaret of Antioch was among the most venerated medieval saints, and the name spread into every European language with more forms than almost any other. Spanish kept Margarita as the full form. Spanish-speaking families brought it to the United States, where it appears throughout the twentieth century and peaked around 1965.
Meaning
pearl
From the Greek margarites, 'pearl', itself borrowed — probably from an Old Persian word and ultimately perhaps from Sanskrit. Spanish margarita means both pearl and daisy, the flower being named for the pearl-like disc at its center. The meaning is undisputed.
How the name formed
- margarites
- Margarita
Related forms: Margarita · Маргарита · Margaret · Margherita
Pronouncing Margarita
mar-guh-REE-tuh
Four syllables, stress on the third. Spanish and Russian say it the same way.
Nicknames for Margarita
Moderate
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
- 1957594 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #334reached in 1950
- Change vs 2022
- −7.1%104 in 2025, from 112
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.
Margarita in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Margarita in Spanish — same name
- Маргарита in Russian — transliteration
- Margaret in English — related form
- Margherita in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Margaritas among us
people named Margarita are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 15,454 born in 2025 was named Margarita
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Eddie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Margarita's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Eddie climbed just as high around 1922, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Eddie's path sketches the road Margarita is walking now.
Margarita 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
Where Margarita is headed
Margarita should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Margarita beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Margarita in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The pearl meaning is concrete, and the flower connection is a genuinely good detail.
- Rita is available as a short form with its own substantial record.
- It is standard across Spanish, Russian and Bulgarian without change.
- A cocktail carries the name in most English speakers' minds.
- Four syllables make it long for everyday use.
- It is closely dated to the middle of the twentieth century in American records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Margaritas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 30,500 people named Margarita are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Margarita in 2025?
- Margarita ranks #1880 among US girl names in 2025, with 104 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Margarita?
- About 1 in every 15,454 US girls born in 2025 was named Margarita — 104 in all.
- Will my child share the name Margarita with classmates?
- Margarita will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Margarita
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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