How Many People Are Named Margret?

4,187

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

About 1 in 81,630 people in the US has this name

Based on 10,068 babies named Margret in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#4,168

πŸ’ŽπŸ’Ž Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#2,354

See the top 100

Peak Year

1921

214 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

πŸ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Icelandic
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Icelandic form of MARGARET.

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

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

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

πŸ‘₯ Age Distribution

The average person named Margret alive today is about 57 years old, and 54% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 41 and 75 in 2025.

Under 30 612
14.6%
30 to 59 1,325
31.6%
60 and over 2,250
53.7%

πŸ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Margret first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1921, to 214 babies. In 2025, 21 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

πŸ† Rank History

Margret has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #286, in 1882. In 2025 it ranked #5,842.

Girls
Rank in 2025#5,842
Best rank#286 (1882)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#515 in the 1920s

πŸ“ State-Wise Distribution

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

More people named Margret were born in California than in any other state: about 311 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Margret was given 3.9 times as often in Mississippi, 3.1 times in Tennessee and 2.9 times in Alabama.

California 311
Texas 194
New York 136
Illinois 118
Mississippi 95
Ohio 68
Alabama 65
Tennessee 48
Arkansas 48
Pennsylvania 42
North Carolina 39
Georgia 34
Florida 33
South Carolina 26
Michigan 23
Wisconsin 16
Louisiana 16
Kentucky 15
New Jersey 13
Missouri 12
Oklahoma 10
Iowa 6
Virginia 5
West Virginia 5
Arizona 5
Maryland 4
Connecticut 4
Indiana 2
Minnesota 2

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