# Margot (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/margot/  
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 | French |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈmɑɹ.ɡoʊ/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Margo |
| US babies named this | 25,568 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 25,568 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 8,346, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from French Margot.

## 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 | 185 | 1,284 |
| 2012 | 237 | 1,062 |
| 2013 | 268 | 944 |
| 2014 | 377 | 743 |
| 2015 | 505 | 593 |
| 2016 | 745 | 433 |
| 2017 | 860 | 363 |
| 2018 | 882 | 358 |
| 2019 | 1,065 | 305 |
| 2020 | 1,269 | 234 |
| 2021 | 1,530 | 194 |
| 2022 | 1,527 | 193 |
| 2023 | 1,933 | 148 |
| 2024 | 2,227 | 127 |
| 2025 | 2,575 | 102 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 48 | 776 |
| 2012 | 67 | 624 |
| 2013 | 55 | 725 |
| 2014 | 104 | 415 |
| 2015 | 178 | 273 |
| 2016 | 293 | 186 |
| 2017 | 353 | 156 |
| 2018 | 534 | 99 |
| 2019 | 575 | 94 |
| 2020 | 652 | 80 |
| 2021 | 892 | 57 |
| 2022 | 810 | 59 |
| 2023 | 1,025 | 44 |
| 2024 | 1,243 | 28 |
| 2025 | 1,230 | 30 |

## People named Margot

- Margot Robbie, Australian actress (born 1990)
- Margot Fonteyn, British ballerina
- Margot Honecker, East German politician (1927-2016)
- Margot Boer, Dutch speed skater
- Margot Lee Shetterly, American nonfiction writer
- Margot Bingham, American singer, actor and composer
- Margot Adler, author, Neopagan, and National Public Radio reporter (1946–2014)
- Margot van Geffen, Dutch field hockey player
- Margot Loyola, (1918–2015)
- Margot Foster, Australian rower
- Margot Asquith, British socialite, author and wit (1864-1945)
- Margot Duhalde Sotomayor, Chilean aviator (1920–2018)

## 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.