Margarete
Recorded 1884–2025 · United States
Margarete was most popular in 1918, when 74 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,553 that year. In 2025 it ranked #20,040, with 7 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,376 people named Margarete.
Margarete over time
How old is the name Margarete?
Margarete first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1884, which makes it about 141 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 121 of the 142 years since.
How many people are named Margarete?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,376 American births named Margarete between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 779 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Margarete in 2025?
7 American babies were named Margarete in 2025, ranking #20,040 that year.
Is Margarete getting more or less popular?
Margarete is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 7 births a year across 2021–2025 against 7 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Margarete a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Margarete is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,376 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Margarete?
Roughly 779 Americans named Margarete are alive today — 33% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 66 years old, and half are between 43 and 77. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Margarete is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org