Margarita
Margarita is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 111 births. Its best rank was 334th, in 1950.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1110.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1957594 births
- Best rank
- #334in 1950
- Since 1880
- 40,117people given the name
The story in the numbers
40,117 girls have been named Margarita in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 594 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1967, and the 1950s alone account for 14%. It has spent 126 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Margarita | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 84 | |
| 1890s | 228 | |
| 1900s | 431 | |
| 1910s | 1,208 | |
| 1920s | 2,873 | |
| 1930s | 2,582 | |
| 1940s | 3,346 | |
| 1950s | 5,452 | |
| 1960s | 5,310 | |
| 1970s | 4,760 | |
| 1980s | 4,301 | |
| 1990s | 4,818 | |
| 2000s | 2,848 | |
| 2010s | 1,356 | |
| 2020s | 520 |
In 1957, its biggest year
Margarita was the 372nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1957 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Debra and Karen. See all of 1957.
Names that rose and fell with Margarita
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Carmenpeak 1960
- Angelitapeak 1975
- Elviapeak 1991
- Mariapeak 1964
- Janettepeak 1953
- Delenapeak 1967
- Imeldapeak 1978
- Josefinapeak 1930
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.