Given name
Margita
“resembling a pearl”·“the child of light”
Margita is a variant of Margaret. Interpretations include “resembling a pearl” and “the child of light”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Original ItalianMargherita
Meaning & origin
What it means
Margita 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, Margita developed from Margherita.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1983. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Margita through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 12
- 0 boys · 12 girls
- Most popular year
- 1983
- 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 6 in 1984. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 235 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.
Margita’s family of names
In Latvian usage, Margita has a short form in Gita. In Swedish usage, Margita developed from the Italian form Margherita. Margita has a related form in Margaret.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Margita has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Italian roots to each of them.
Italianwhere Margita comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 28
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Margheritaroot · Italian
- Margotequivalent
- Maggieequivalent
- Margaritaequivalent
- Margueriteequivalent
- Maireadequivalent
- Margretequivalent
- MargareteGerman
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- Margaretaequivalent
- Margretheequivalent
- Margitequivalent
- Margreteequivalent
- Marietaequivalent
- Margaridaequivalent
- Margarethaequivalent
- Margretaequivalent
- Marjetaequivalent
- Marc'haridequivalent
- MałgorzataPolish
- Margrjetequivalent
- Margalidaequivalent
- Marjeticaequivalent
- Margeritaequivalent
- Margrétequivalent
- Margrethequivalent
- Margedequivalent
- Marjetkaequivalent
- Marijetaequivalent
People named Margita
- Margita FiguliSlovak writer, translator and author of literature for children and young adults (1909 – 1995)
- Margita StefanovićSerbian musician (1959-2002)
- Margita AlfvénSwedish actress (1905–1962)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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