# Margarita (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/margarita/  
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 | Greek |
| Meaning | “margaret” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 40,418 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 199 / 40,219 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 263, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from the Latin and Spanish Margarita (“Margaret”).

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 165 | 1,388 |
| 2012 | 144 | 1,536 |
| 2013 | 145 | 1,521 |
| 2014 | 132 | 1,632 |
| 2015 | 125 | 1,702 |
| 2016 | 134 | 1,633 |
| 2017 | 125 | 1,712 |
| 2018 | 107 | 1,884 |
| 2019 | 110 | 1,848 |
| 2020 | 88 | 2,092 |
| 2021 | 95 | 2,040 |
| 2022 | 112 | 1,826 |
| 2023 | 114 | 1,788 |
| 2024 | 111 | 1,815 |
| 2025 | 104 | 1,893 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 6 | 4,550 |
| 1972 | 5 | 5,474 |
| 1973 | 6 | 4,871 |
| 1974 | 7 | 4,453 |
| 1976 | 5 | 6,150 |
| 1977 | 5 | 6,464 |
| 1978 | 7 | 4,860 |
| 1981 | 5 | 6,903 |
| 1982 | 5 | 6,989 |
| 1983 | 9 | 4,361 |
| 1984 | 7 | 5,350 |
| 1988 | 8 | 5,530 |
| 1990 | 12 | 4,573 |
| 1991 | 5 | 9,099 |
| 1993 | 6 | 8,292 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 20 | 1,489 |
| 2012 | 8 | 2,969 |
| 2013 | 10 | 2,460 |
| 2014 | 6 | 3,514 |
| 2015 | 9 | 2,705 |
| 2016 | 14 | 2,008 |
| 2017 | 11 | 2,341 |
| 2018 | 12 | 2,187 |
| 2019 | 12 | 2,170 |
| 2020 | 14 | 1,939 |
| 2021 | 13 | 2,073 |
| 2022 | 21 | 1,452 |
| 2023 | 7 | 3,218 |
| 2024 | 9 | 2,771 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2,788 |

## People named Margarita

- Margarita Xhepa, Albanian actress
- Princess Margarita of Baden, daughter of Berthold, Margrave of Baden, and Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1932
- Margarita Fischer, American actress (1886–1975)
- Margarita Popova, Bulgarian politician
- Margarita Rosa de Francisco, Colombian actress and singer
- Margarita Tutulani, anti-fascist hero of Albania during World War II
- Queen Margarita of Bulgaria, Bulgarian Royal
- Margarita Shtarkelova, Bulgarian basketball player (born 1950)
- Margarita Voyska, Bulgarian chess player
- Margarita Voites, Estonian actor and opera singer (1936–2024)
- Margarita Stolbizer, Argentine politician
- Margarita Barrientos, Argentinian activist

## 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.