How Many People Are Named Margot?

22,857

people named Margot are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 14,953 people in the US has this name

Based on 25,568 babies named Margot in Social Security records from 1894 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,506

πŸ’Ž Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#801

See the top 100

Peak Year

2025

2,575 births

Trend

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Rising (last 10 years)

πŸ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: French
Pronunciation: MAR-GO
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

French short form of MARGARET.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Margot in English. Counting Margot and these spellings together, about 26,895 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Margot in the records were girls.

πŸ‘₯ Age Distribution

The average person named Margot alive today is about 18 years old, and 78% are under 30. Half of them were between 2 and 23 in 2025.

Under 30 17,810
77.9%
30 to 59 2,438
10.7%
60 and over 2,610
11.4%

πŸ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Margot first appears in the records in 1894, and 2025 was its biggest year so far, with 2,575 babies.

Babies given the name each year, 1894 to 2025

πŸ† Rank History

Margot has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #102, in 2025. In 2025 it ranked #102.

Girls
Rank in 2025#102
Best rank#102 (2025)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#156 in the 2020s

πŸ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Margot alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Margot were born in California than in any other state: about 2,418 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Margot was given 3 times as often in District of Columbia, 1.8 times in Massachusetts and 1.8 times in New York.

California 2,418
New York 2,041
Texas 1,838
Illinois 1,097
Pennsylvania 979
Ohio 803
Massachusetts 720
Florida 665
Michigan 585
New Jersey 562
North Carolina 519
Georgia 506
Washington 498
Colorado 484
Virginia 458
Minnesota 433
Tennessee 379
Indiana 372
Missouri 362
Oregon 331
Wisconsin 310
Utah 303
Connecticut 292
Louisiana 281
Maryland 276
Arizona 240
Kansas 203
Kentucky 187
Alabama 170
District of Columbia 166
Oklahoma 159
South Carolina 155
Iowa 137
Arkansas 104
Nebraska 82
Idaho 81
New Hampshire 75
Nevada 68
Maine 66
Montana 50
Mississippi 42
Rhode Island 42
South Dakota 24
Alaska 24
North Dakota 20
Delaware 12
New Mexico 11
Vermont 10
West Virginia 10
Hawaii 5

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