Given name & surname
Margalit
“resembling a pearl”·“the child of light”
Margalit is a variant of Margaret. Interpretations include “resembling a pearl” and “the child of light”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Margalit is a variant of Margaret. Interpretations include “resembling a pearl” and “the child of light”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Margalit shares an earlier linguistic root with Margaret. Margaret has been associated with Greek and Hebrew naming traditions. The precise derivation is uncertain.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1985. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Margalit through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 178
- 0 boys · 178 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #10,602 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +93%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 10,602 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 271 as a first name in 2020; 209 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Margalit’s family of names
Margalit shares a linguistic root with Margaret. Margalit has a related form in Margaret.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Margalit
- Maggie GyllenhaalAmerican actress, singer and filmmaker (born 1977)
- Margalit MatitiahuIsraeli poet (born 1935)
- Margalit FinkelbergIsraeli historian and linguistborn 1947
- Margalit Tzan'aniIsraeli singerborn 1948
- Margalith GalunIsraeli lichenologist1927–2012
- Maya CasabiancaFrench singer (1941–2018)
- Margalit ShiloIsraeli historianborn 1942
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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