Given name & surname
Margareta
“resembling a pearl”·“the child of light”
Margareta 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
Margareta 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
How it developed
In Swedish usage, Margareta developed from Margarita.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1898. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Margareta through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 494
- 0 boys · 494 girls
- Most popular year
- 1927
- 17 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 8 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 17 in 1927. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,415 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Margareta’s family of names
In German usage, Margareta has a diminutive in Greta. In Swedish usage, Margareta shares a linguistic root with the English form Margaret. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Margareta has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Margarita.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Margareta has relatives in 14 languages.
19 related names in 14 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 33
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Margotequivalent
- Maggieequivalent
- Margaritaroot · Spanish, Latin
- MargueriteFrench
- Maireadequivalent
- Margarethequivalent
- Margarettequivalent
- Margretheequivalent
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- Margaequivalent
- Margreteequivalent
- Marietaequivalent
- MargheritaItalian
- Margaridaequivalent
- Reetaequivalent
- Margretaequivalent
- Margitaequivalent
- Reettaequivalent
- Marjetaequivalent
- Marc'haridequivalent
- 瑪格麗特Chinese
- МаргаритаRussian
- MałgorzataPolish
- Margareetaborrowing · Finnish
- Margrjetequivalent
- Margalidaequivalent
- Marjeticaequivalent
- Margeritaequivalent
- Marjattaequivalent
- Margrétequivalent
- Margrethequivalent
- Margedequivalent
- Marjetkaequivalent
- Marijetaequivalent
See also 6
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Margareta
- Margaret the Virginsaint (275–304) usually shown with a dragon (292–307)
- Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spainqueen consort of Spain (1584-1611)
- Margaret of Austria, Duchess of SavoyAustrian archduchess and regent of the Netherlands (1480-1530)
- Margaret of ParmaHabsburg noble (1522-1586)
- Margaret III of FlandersCountess suo jure of Flanders (1350-1405)
- Margaret of France, Queen of EnglandQueen of England1282–1318
- Margareta of RomaniaHead of the House of Romania (2017 - present)born 1949
- Margaret LeijonhufvudQueen consort of Sweden (lived 1516-1551)
- Margaret of BavariaRegent of the Burgundian low countries (1363-1423)
Characters named Margareta: Madicken (fictional character created by the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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