# Margo (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/margo/  
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 | 27,242 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 34 / 27,208 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 948, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 | 98 | 2,012 |
| 2012 | 94 | 2,056 |
| 2013 | 117 | 1,757 |
| 2014 | 153 | 1,467 |
| 2015 | 191 | 1,277 |
| 2016 | 254 | 1,044 |
| 2017 | 236 | 1,077 |
| 2018 | 271 | 976 |
| 2019 | 321 | 841 |
| 2020 | 356 | 765 |
| 2021 | 464 | 640 |
| 2022 | 481 | 617 |
| 2023 | 556 | 543 |
| 2024 | 556 | 546 |
| 2025 | 540 | 559 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 6 | 3,370 |
| 1942 | 6 | 3,436 |
| 1954 | 5 | 4,167 |
| 1969 | 5 | 4,787 |
| 1977 | 6 | 5,579 |
| 1989 | 6 | 7,571 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | 3,185 |
| 2012 | 4 | 4,838 |
| 2013 | 8 | 2,887 |
| 2014 | 7 | 3,160 |
| 2015 | 29 | 1,168 |
| 2016 | 36 | 994 |
| 2017 | 64 | 648 |
| 2018 | 75 | 553 |
| 2019 | 63 | 623 |
| 2020 | 74 | 537 |
| 2021 | 103 | 427 |
| 2022 | 98 | 433 |
| 2023 | 110 | 379 |
| 2024 | 110 | 392 |
| 2025 | 120 | 357 |

## People named Margo

- Margo Martindale, American actress
- Margo Harshman, American actress
- Margo, American actress (1917–1985)
- Margo Stilley, American actress
- Margo Price, American singer-songwriter
- Margo Glantz, author
- Margo Hayes, American professional rock climber
- Margo Guryan, American musician (1937–2021)
- Margo Jefferson, American writer and academic (born 1947)
- Margo Lanagan, Australian writer
- Margo Geer, American swimmer

## 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.