# Margarethe (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/margarethe/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 62 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 62 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1891 | 8 | 1,062 |
| 1899 | 5 | 1,755 |
| 1914 | 5 | 3,986 |
| 1918 | 5 | 5,303 |
| 1919 | 5 | 5,280 |
| 1921 | 5 | 5,610 |
| 1922 | 6 | 4,808 |
| 1957 | 5 | 6,693 |
| 1959 | 6 | 5,987 |
| 1963 | 6 | 6,313 |
| 1994 | 6 | 12,786 |

## People named Margarethe

- Margarethe von Trotta, German film director (born 1942)
- Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria, archduchess of Austria (1870–1955)
- Margarethe Kahn, German mathematician and Holocaust victim (1880–1942)
- Margarethe Cammermeyer, American politician
- Margarethe Weikert, Austrian alpine skier
- Princess Christina Margarethe of Hesse, eldest daughter of Prince Christoph of Hesse and Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark
- Princess Margaret of Prussia, German imperial princess, Prussian princess (1872–1954); youngest child of Frederick III, 
- La Jana, Austro-German dancer and actress (1905–1940)
- Lotte Neumann, German actress and screenwriter (1896-1977)
- Thilly Weissenborn, Dutch photographer
- Margrethe of Slesvig-Holsten-Sønderborg, German Danish countess
- Margarete Luise Schick, German operatic soprano (1773-1809)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.