Margaretta
Margaretta is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 553rd, in 1884.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191576 births
- Best rank
- #553in 1884
- Since 1880
- 2,535people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,535 girls have been named Margaretta in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 76 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 76 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 35 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Margaretta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 97 | |
| 1890s | 156 | |
| 1900s | 179 | |
| 1910s | 444 | |
| 1920s | 475 | |
| 1930s | 284 | |
| 1940s | 319 | |
| 1950s | 246 | |
| 1960s | 158 | |
| 1970s | 101 | |
| 1980s | 57 | |
| 1990s | 14 | |
| 2000s | 5 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Margaretta was the 760th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1915 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Margaretta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Florancepeak 1917
- Henriettapeak 1918
- Edithpeak 1918
- Inapeak 1921
- Elvinapeak 1920
- Nellpeak 1917
- Lavinapeak 1920
- Edythpeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.