# Margit (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/margit/  
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 | 672 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 672 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From Hungarian, German, Norwegian, and Swedish Margit, equivalents of 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 10 | 4,910 |
| 1970 | 11 | 4,952 |
| 1971 | 9 | 5,830 |
| 1972 | 16 | 3,823 |
| 1973 | 5 | 9,222 |
| 1974 | 7 | 7,363 |
| 1975 | 6 | 8,625 |
| 1976 | 8 | 7,006 |
| 1979 | 6 | 9,685 |
| 1981 | 6 | 9,853 |
| 1985 | 14 | 5,230 |
| 1987 | 5 | 12,472 |
| 1988 | 6 | 11,216 |
| 1991 | 6 | 12,491 |
| 1993 | 8 | 10,188 |

## People named Margit

- Margit Carstensen, German actress (1940–2023)
- Margit Schumann, East German luger (1952–2017)
- Margit Pörtner, Danish female curler (1972–2017)
- Margit Nünke, German beauty pageant winner and actor (1930–2015)
- Margit Otto-Crépin, French equestrian (1945–2020)
- Margit Elek, fencer (1910–1986)
- Margit Rüütel, Estonian tennis player (born 1983)
- Margit Barnay, German film actor (1896-1974)
- Margit Saad, German actress (1929–2023)
- Ene-Margit Tiit, Estonian mathematician and statistician (born 1934)
- Margit Danÿ, fencer (1906-1975)
- Margit Fischer, First Lady of Austria

## 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.