Given name
Margaretta
“resembling a pearl”·“the child of light”
Margaretta 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
Margaretta 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
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Margaretta through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,535
- 0 boys · 2,535 girls
- Most popular year
- 1915
- 76 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 5 in 2007. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 76 in 1915. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,108 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.
Margaretta’s family of names
Margaretta has a related form in Margaret. In English usage, Margaretta has a conventional equivalent in the German form Margarete.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Margaretta
- Happy RockefellerSecond Lady of the United States from 1974 to 19771926–2015
- Margaretta MorrisAmerican entomologist (1797-1867)
- Margaretta ScottBritish actor (1912-2005)
- Margaretta RileyBritish botanist (1804-1899)
- Margaretta Angelica Pealepainter from the United States (1795-1882)
- Margaretta D'ArcyIrish writer1934–2025
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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