How rare is the name Marguerite?

27,427 people in the United States have the first name Marguerite, about 1 in 11,012. It ranks #1,330 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

MARGUERITE

#1,330

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
27,427
About
1 in 11,012
This common or more
73.8%
Who bears it

Of the 27,427 people named Marguerite, 81.8% reported their origin as White, 10.9% as Black and 4% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Marguerite peaked in 1918, when 3,254 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1918
Births that year
3,254
In 2025*
71 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 94,123 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.

Marguerite by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1890s, when it ranked #115. The largest share of babies named Marguerite, 51.7%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#2741,256
1890s#1156,376
1900s#1217,918
1910s#13822,684
1920s#21621,820
1930s#3589,352
1940s#4518,121
1950s#5747,439
1960s#9243,510
1970s#1,7841,194
1980s#2,0181,153
1990s#2,4501,157
2000s#3,506929
2010s#4,233762
2020s#4,283452
Before 19018.9%
Greatest Generation 1901–2751.7%
Silent Generation 1928–4518%
Baby boom 1946–6414%
Generation X 1965–802.7%
Millennials 1981–962%
Generation Z 1997–121.6%
2013 and later1.1%

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 Marguerite is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Marguerite has been most common in Maine (3.3×), Vermont (3.2×), and Rhode Island (2.9×), and least common in Arizona (0.1×).

73,983 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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