Margrett
Feminine · “pearl”
Margrett writes the name the way it is actually said. Nobody pronounces the middle syllable of the standard spelling, and this version simply leaves it out and doubles the final consonant instead. One of its medieval bearers was a seven-year-old queen who died at sea before she ever reached the country she had inherited.
How old is the name Margrett?
Margrett first appears in US birth records in 1885 — 140 years ago. The typical Margrett alive today was born around 1930, making them about 95 years old. About 400 people named Margrett are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Margrett most popular?
Margrett peaked in 1888, reaching #753 nationally. See the whole 1888 chart.
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Where it comes from
From A Greek word for a pearl, borrowed from the east to Margrett
The story of Margrett
Ancient and medieval writers had a theory about how pearls were made, and it was wrong in a way that lasted. Pliny wrote that oysters rose to the surface at certain seasons, opened, and took in dew, and that the quality of the pearl depended on the quality of the dew: clear weather gave a white pearl, cloudy weather a dull one. Medieval encyclopedias copied him for a thousand years, and the idea worked its way into sermons and poetry, where a pearl became an image of something formed by heaven rather than dug out of the ground. The actual process, a shell coating an irritation, is less flattering and was not established until much later.
Meaning
pearl
The Greek word for a pearl stands behind every form of this name, and the reading is settled. What is not settled is where the Greek word came from: it was borrowed from further east, and the trail through Persian and Sanskrit is argued about. Neither the dropped vowel nor the doubled consonant in this spelling affects any of that.
How the name formed
- A Greek word for a pearl, borrowed from the east
- Carried across Europe as a saint's name
- One of the commonest medieval women's names
- Margrett as a spelling that drops the middle
Related forms: Margarete · Marguerite · Margrethe
Pronouncing Margrett
MAR-gret
Two syllables, stress on the first. The standard spelling has three on paper and two in speech; this one has two in both, which makes it the more honest spelling and the less recognized one.
Nicknames for Margrett
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
- 1885
- Most girls named
- 192446 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #753reached in 1888
- Change vs 1985
- −16.7%5 in 1991, from 6
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.
Margrett in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Margarete in German — related form
- Marguerite in French — related form
- Margrethe in Danish — related form
Margretts among us
people named Margrett are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Margrett sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It writes the name as it is genuinely said, with nothing silent.
- The whole apparatus of short forms is available from it.
- The meaning is one word and can be given to a child at any age.
- Margaret is the standard spelling and this will be corrected into it constantly.
- The doubled t is inaudible, so the spelling has to be given every time.
- It reads as an older name, which may be exactly the point or may not.
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Frequently asked
- How many Margretts are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 400 people named Margrett are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Margrett in 2025?
- Margrett is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Margrett with classmates?
- Margrett will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More M names
The most-given names starting with M, all years combined.
Mary#125 · Margaret#112 · Michelle#465 · Melissa#419 · Maria#87 · Martha#712 · Marie#617 · Mildred#1962
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