first name
MARGRET
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 8,420 people named Margret, 76.5% reported their origin as White, 11.9% as Black and 6.5% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Margret peaked in 1921, when 214 babies got the name.
At least 10,068 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Margret by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #660. The largest share of babies named Margret, 31.4%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Margret is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Margret has been most common in Mississippi (5.7×), Arkansas (4.2×), and Alabama (4.1×), and least common in Florida (0.31×).
4,432 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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2 other first names also have 8,420 people.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Margret, most common first.
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