Margurite
Feminine · “a pearl”
Two respellings of this name remove different letters from the same cluster. One drops the u and keeps the e; this drops the e and keeps the u — which means it preserves the letter that actually matters, since the u is what stops the g going soft and the e is doing nothing at all.
How old is the name Margurite?
Margurite first appears in US birth records in 1893 — 132 years ago. The typical Margurite alive today was born around 1926, making them about 99 years old. About 500 people named Margurite are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Margurite most popular?
Margurite peaked in 1919, reaching #850 nationally. See the whole 1919 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Marguerite to Margurite
The story of Margurite
A woman of this name commanded armies because her husband could not. She was married at fifteen to an English king who was periodically insensible and entirely unfit to lead, and when the civil war began she raised troops, negotiated with Scotland and France, and fought a campaign that came within reach of London. Contemporaries hated her for it with a venom they did not direct at any man doing the same thing. She lost, her son was killed, and she was ransomed home to France to live on a pension.
Meaning
a pearl
The Greek word for a pearl, reaching English through Latin and French. The word may have come into Greek from further east and its earlier history is lost, but its sense has been stable for millennia.
How the name formed
- Marguerite
- Margurite
Related forms: Marguerite · Margherita · Margarita
Pronouncing Margurite
MAR-guh-reet
Three syllables with the stress at the front. The u keeps the g hard, which is exactly the job it was put there to do.
Nicknames for Margurite
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
- 1893
- Most girls named
- 191967 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #850reached in 1919
- Change vs 1981
- −16.7%5 in 1987, 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.
Margurite in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Marguerite in French — same name
- Margherita in Italian — same name
- Margarita in Spanish — same name
Margurites among us
people named Margurite 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
Margurite 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 keeps the letter that the other respelling of this name throws away.
- Rita sits inside it as a completely established short form.
- The meaning is concrete and has been stable for thousands of years.
- Marguerite is standard and this gets corrected constantly.
- The name is long and will be shortened by most people.
- The generation that used it is now very old.
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Frequently asked
- How many Margurites are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Margurite are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Margurite in 2025?
- Margurite is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Margurite 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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