Margaret · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Margaret.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1881

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Per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 119 recorded years as a table

Margaret, per million boys born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1881	89
1882	62
1883	124
1884	87
1885	102
1886	72
1887	128
1888	91
1889	118
1890	135
1891	119
1892	98
1893	125
1894	130
1895	77
1896	67
1897	80
1898	130
1899	122
1900	106
1901	197
1902	179
1903	193
1904	156
1905	98
1906	120
1907	225
1908	156
1909	183
1910	160
1911	124
1912	107
1913	74
1914	70
1915	62
1916	61
1917	63
1918	60
1919	59
1920	47
1921	48
1922	31
1923	47
1924	78
1925	72
1926	82
1927	77
1928	79
1929	71
1930	64
1931	72
1932	84
1933	60
1934	62
1935	69
1936	78
1937	64
1938	59
1939	60
1940	57
1941	41
1942	46
1943	43
1944	29
1945	27
1946	26
1947	26
1948	23
1949	24
1950	18
1951	19
1952	13
1953	17
1954	13
1955	17
1956	14
1957	20
1958	14
1959	11
1960	14
1961	18
1962	19
1963	9
1964	10
1965	13
1966	15
1967	15
1968	10
1969	11
1970	10
1971	7
1972	10
1973	8
1974	6
1975	8
1976	4
1977	7
1978	7
1979	5
1980	10
1981	7
1982	8
1983	9
1984	8
1985	9
1986	5
1987	6
1988	7
1989	17
1990	8
1991	5
1992	4
1994	4
1995	6
1996	3
1998	4
2003	3
2004	4
2012	3

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Margaret isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

More like Margaret

The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2012: 6
Rank in 2012: #10,770
How rare: 1 in 316,157 boys
Since 1881: 3,745

Margaret was last recorded in 2012. Fewer than five boys have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1907, at 225 per million boys born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Margaret doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.