Margrette
Feminine · “A pearl”
Margrette writes the two-syllable way the name is actually said and then adds a French ending — a spelling that corrects the pronunciation and decorates it in the same breath.
How old is the name Margrette?
Margrette first appears in US birth records in 1903 — 122 years ago. The typical Margrette alive today was born around 1926, making them about 99 years old. About 200 people named Margrette are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Margrette most popular?
Margrette peaked in 1903, reaching #1204 nationally. See the whole 1903 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Margarites to Margrette
The story of Margrette
The name belonged to a queen who put three kingdoms together. Margaret of Denmark inherited one crown, married into a second, outmaneuvered a claimant for a third, and ended up ruling Denmark, Norway and Sweden at once — formally as regent, since a woman could not be crowned, but in practice as the sovereign of the largest state in northern Europe. The union she built lasted more than a century. She is one of very few medieval rulers whose reputation is for competence rather than for battles, and the arrangement she made is still the reason the Scandinavian countries talk about each other the way they do.
Meaning
A pearl
The Greek word behind Margaret means a pearl and reached Greek from further east with the pearl trade. The shortened middle and the added ending in this spelling change nothing about the meaning.
How the name formed
- Margarites
- Margaret
- Margrette
Related forms: Margrethe · Marguerite · Margarete
Pronouncing Margrette
MAR-gret
Two syllables, stress at the front. That is how the longer spelling is said as well, which is why this one exists.
Nicknames for Margrette
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
- 1903
- Most girls named
- 192334 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1204reached in 1903
- Change vs 1967
- +20.0%6 in 1968, from 5
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.
Margrette in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Margrethe in Danish — same name
- Marguerite in French — same name
- Margarete in German — same name
Margrettes among us
people named Margrette 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
Margrette 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
- The meaning is settled and the name is one of the great European ones.
- It has an unusually deep bench of short forms across several languages.
- The spelling matches the pronunciation, which the standard one does not.
- Margaret and Margarette are both standard and hers will be written as one of them.
- The doubled t and final e are decoration rather than instruction.
- The name is strongly associated with older generations in America.
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Frequently asked
- How many Margrettes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 200 people named Margrette are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Margrette in 2025?
- Margrette is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Margrette with classmates?
- Margrette 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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