Margaretta
Recorded 1880–2007 · United States
Margaretta was most popular in 1915, when 76 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,397 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,535 people named Margaretta.
Margaretta over time
How old is the name Margaretta?
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Margaretta is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 109 of the 146 years since. It was last recorded in 2007.
How many people are named Margaretta?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,535 American births named Margaretta 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 782 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Margaretta in 2025?
Margaretta was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Margaretta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Margaretta is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,535 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were 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 Margaretta?
Roughly 782 Americans named Margaretta are alive today — 31% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 71 years old, and half are between 59 and 80.
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 Margaretta 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