Marymargaret
Feminine
Marymargaret is not one name but two saints stapled together, and the Social Security data records the staple. Mary Margaret was a standard Catholic pairing in mid-century America — a first name and a second name spoken as a single unit — and when a clerk typed it without the space, the file created a name that no dictionary lists.
How old is the name Marymargaret?
Marymargaret first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Marymargaret alive today was born around 1995, making them about 30 years old. About 900 people named Marymargaret are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Marymargaret most popular?
Marymargaret peaked in 1963, reaching #2489 nationally. Today it ranks #6838, 4,349 places below that high. See the whole 1963 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Miryam to Marymargaret
The story of Marymargaret
Double given names spoken as one are a southern and Irish-Catholic American habit rather than a European one, and Mary was the fixed first element in tens of thousands of them: Mary Beth, Mary Ann, Mary Jo, Mary Frances, Mary Margaret. The SSA files by string, not by intention, so a family who always wrote two words appears in the data only if the clerk typed two words. Marymargaret is the closed-up spelling — a small population, but a real one, peaking in 1963 near the end of the double-name era.
Meaning
Mary plus Margaret: an uncertain Hebrew name plus Greek "pearl"
Both halves are separately well documented. Margaret is Greek margarites, "pearl", by way of Latin Margarita. Mary is the Greek Maria from Hebrew Miryam, whose own meaning is genuinely disputed — "bitter", "beloved", "drop of the sea" and an Egyptian root meaning "beloved" all have serious defenders. The compound has no meaning beyond the sum of its parts.
How the name formed
- Miryam
- Maria
- Mary
- Mary Margaret
- Marymargaret
Related forms: Máire Maighréad · María Margarita · Maria Margherita
Pronouncing Marymargaret
MAIR-ee-MAR-gret
Two full names in sequence, each keeping its own stress; the compound does not merge into a single stress pattern the way Marianne does. Margaret itself is usually two syllables in speech, MAR-gret, with the middle vowel dropped.
Nicknames for Marymargaret
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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
- 1915
- Most girls named
- 199537 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2489reached in 1963
- Change vs 2023
- +77.8%16 in 2025, from 9
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.
Marymargaret in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Máire Maighréad in Irish — related form
- María Margarita in Spanish — related form
- Maria Margherita in Italian — related form
Marymargarets among us
people named Marymargaret are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 100,454 born in 2025 was named Marymargaret
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 Modine test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Marymargaret's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Modine climbed just as high around 1925, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Modine's path sketches the road Marymargaret is walking now.
Marymargaret 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
Marymargaret beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Marymargaret in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Every element is a top-tier historic name, so nothing about it needs explaining once the two halves are seen.
- It offers an unusually wide set of everyday short forms — Mary, Margaret, Maggie, Meg, Molly, Peggy all descend from one half or the other.
- The closed spelling is rare enough to be distinctive while the spoken name is completely familiar.
- Forms and databases will treat the closed-up spelling as one word, which means the space has to be re-explained on every document that expects it.
- The double name is closely dated: it reads as mid-century American Catholic rather than as neutral.
- At eleven letters it is one of the longer names in general use.
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Frequently asked
- How many Marymargarets are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Marymargaret are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Marymargaret in 2025?
- Marymargaret ranks #6838 among US girl names in 2025, with 16 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Marymargaret?
- About 1 in every 100,454 US girls born in 2025 was named Marymargaret — 16 in all.
- Will my child share the name Marymargaret with classmates?
- Marymargaret will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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