Margueritte
Feminine · “Pearl”
The flower this name shares is the one French children pull apart to ask whether they are loved. Effeuiller la marguerite means to strip the petals off a daisy one at a time, and the answers alternate the way they do in English, with a longer and more elaborate list of options than English uses.
How old is the name Margueritte?
Margueritte first appears in US birth records in 1888 — 137 years ago. The typical Margueritte alive today was born around 1922, making them about 103 years old. About 200 people named Margueritte are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Margueritte most popular?
Margueritte peaked in 1907, reaching #840 nationally. See the whole 1907 chart.
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Where it comes from
From margarites to Margueritte
The story of Margueritte
The petal-pulling game is old and widespread and the French version has more steps than most. Where English alternates between two answers, the French list runs through loving a little, a lot, passionately, madly and not at all, so that the outcome depends on the number of petals in a way that gives five possible results rather than two. Children learn which flowers have how many petals accordingly. The game is attested across Europe in various forms, the daisy is the standard flower for it everywhere, and in French the flower and the name are the same word, so that a girl called Marguerite is being asked the question by her own name every spring.
Meaning
Pearl
The word came into Greek from further east and meant the pearl itself before it meant a person; every European form of the name descends from it. The French word for the flower is the same word, applied to the daisy for its white and gold, so the name and the flower are not two things but one. The doubled t in this spelling belongs to neither French nor English practice.
How the name formed
- margarites
- Marguerite
- Margueritte
Related forms: Marguerite · Margherita · Margarita · Margarete
Pronouncing Margueritte
mar-guh-REET
Three syllables with the stress at the back. The gue is a French device for keeping the g hard before an e and the u in it is silent; the doubled t at the end changes nothing at all, since the vowel before it is already short.
Nicknames for Margueritte
High
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
- 1888
- Most girls named
- 191956 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #840reached in 1907
- Change vs 1969
- 0.0%5 in 1986, 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.
Margueritte in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Marguerite in French — same name
- Margherita in Italian — same name
- Margarita in Spanish — same name
- Margarete in German — same name
Marguerittes among us
people named Margueritte 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
Margueritte 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
- One of the most widely shared names in Europe, recognizable in a dozen languages.
- An unusually rich set of short forms that sound nothing like each other.
- The meaning is concrete, pleasant and entirely uncontested.
- The doubled t belongs to no language in the name's history and will be corrected everywhere.
- Marguerite and Margarite are both commoner and will be written by anyone taking dictation.
- Three syllables with the stress at the end is formal, and a short form will be chosen early.
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Frequently asked
- How many Marguerittes 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 Margueritte are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Margueritte in 2025?
- Margueritte is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Margueritte with classmates?
- Margueritte will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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The most-given names starting with M, all years combined.
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