Given name
Margarida
“resembling a pearl”·“the child of light”
Margarida 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
Margarida 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
In Portuguese use, Margarida 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 1922. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Margarida through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 27
- 0 boys · 27 girls
- Most popular year
- 1972
- 6 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 1990. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 861 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.
Margarida’s family of names
In Galician usage, Margarida has a diminutive in Marga. Margarida shares a linguistic root with Margaret. In Portuguese usage, Margarida has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Margarita.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Margarida has relatives in 9 languages.
10 related names in 9 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 31
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Margotequivalent
- MaggieEnglish
- MargaritaSpanish
- MargueriteFrench
- Maireadequivalent
- Margretequivalent
- Margarettequivalent
- MargareteGerman
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- Margarethaequivalent
- Margaretaequivalent
- Margitaequivalent
- Margretheequivalent
- Margitequivalent
- Margreteequivalent
- Marietaequivalent
- MargheritaItalian
- Margeritaequivalent
- Margrétequivalent
- Margrethequivalent
- Margedequivalent
- Marjetkaequivalent
- Marijetaequivalent
- Маргаритаequivalent
- Marjetaequivalent
- Marc'haridequivalent
- 瑪格麗特Chinese
- MałgorzataPolish
- MarkétaCzech
- Margrjetequivalent
- Margalidaequivalent
- Marjeticaequivalent
People named Margarida
- Margarida CorceiroPortuguese actressborn 2002
- Margarida Balseiro LopesPortuguese politicianborn 1989
- Margarida BlascoPortuguese judge and politicianborn 1956
- Margarida SalemaPortuguese politician, lawyer and academic lecturer, national parliamentarian, Member of the European Parliament of the third termborn 1954
- Margarida GilPortuguese film directorborn 1950
- Margarida GironellaCatalan anarchist (1886–1964)
- Margarida Borràs15th-century Valencian transgender woman1401–1460
- Margarida CardosoPortuguese film director and screenwriterborn 1963
- Margarida MarquesPolitician from Portugalborn 1954
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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