girls' name ★ peaked 2025

Margot

Meaning A female given name from French Gender Girl Rank 2025 #102 Trend ↑ Rising 116%

A female given name from French.

Rank 2025
#102
among girls · ↑25 vs 2024
Babies in 2025
2,575
named Margot · +16% vs 2024
How common
1 in 624
girls born in 2025
Peak year
2025
2,575 babies
All-time total
25,568
#911 all-time among girls
First recorded
1894
in Social Security records

Margot popularity over time

25,568 babies have been named Margot since 1894, according to official Social Security records. Switch measure to see births per year or the yearly rank.

Measure
Births per 1,000 babies of that sex, comparable across eras
0.511.5218801900192019401960198020002020Peak 2025Girls

By decade. Change compares yearly averages, so the current partial decade is on equal footing. Best rank is the name's best yearly rank within the decade.

Decade Girls Per year Change Best rank
1880s – – – –
1890s 16 2 – #1,524
1900s 69 7 +331% #1,118
1910s 285 29 +313% #998
1920s 471 47 +65% #846
1930s 1,110 111 +136% #581
1940s 1,206 121 +9% #610
1950s 1,130 113 -6% #769
1960s 1,208 121 +7% #852
1970s 617 62 -49% #1,275
1980s 980 98 +59% #1,189
1990s 964 96 -2% #1,517
2000s 1,172 117 +22% #1,467
2010s 5,279 528 +350% #305
2020s (to 2025) 11,061 1,844 +249% #102

Where Margot is heading

A five-year projection from the recent trend in births per 1,000 girls (damped so it flattens over time), converted to babies at today's birth totals. The implied rank places that projection in the 2025 field. A projection, not a promise: real trends bend.

Year Projected babies Per 1,000 girls Implied rank
2026 2,938 1.83 #85
2027 3,287 2.05 #74
2028 3,616 2.25 #63
2029 3,922 2.44 #58
2030 4,201 2.61 #50

Where Margot is most popular

Girls named Margot per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021–2025. National average: 1.21 per 1,000. Strongest in District of Columbia, New Hampshire, and Maine.

Vs national average
well below below near national above well above no data

All 50 states and DC, sorted by rate. Counts are girls named Margot born 2021–2025; the per-1,000 rate makes states of different sizes comparable, and the last column shows each state against the national average.

State Girls 2021–2025 Per 1,000 vs national
District of Columbia 76 6.41 +431%
New Hampshire 60 3.25 +169%
Maine 49 3.17 +162%
Rhode Island 36 2.88 +138%
Colorado 305 2.73 +126%
Montana 35 2.59 +114%
Connecticut 148 2.54 +111%
Oregon 165 2.53 +110%
Utah 204 2.45 +103%
Massachusetts 277 2.29 +90%
Minnesota 243 2.25 +87%
Kansas 128 2.22 +84%
Alaska 18 2.09 +73%
Vermont 10 2.06 +71%
Washington 284 1.97 +63%
Pennsylvania 432 1.83 +51%
Louisiana 157 1.79 +49%
Missouri 214 1.78 +47%
Illinois 404 1.76 +46%
Wisconsin 180 1.75 +45%
Michigan 317 1.74 +44%
Idaho 58 1.73 +44%
South Dakota 24 1.68 +39%
Ohio 383 1.61 +34%
Nebraska 58 1.61 +34%
Virginia 272 1.60 +32%
Arkansas 83 1.57 +30%
Indiana 220 1.57 +30%
Oklahoma 115 1.56 +29%
Tennessee 247 1.56 +29%
North Dakota 20 1.52 +26%
Maryland 157 1.48 +23%
North Carolina 327 1.44 +19%
Kentucky 122 1.43 +18%
Georgia 309 1.36 +13%
New York 533 1.35 +12%
Iowa 76 1.30 +8%
South Carolina 116 1.29 +7%
Alabama 117 1.25 ≈ national
New Jersey 223 1.24 ≈ national
Arizona 161 1.15 -5%
Texas 905 1.13 -7%
California 927 1.10 -9%
Delaware 12 1.06 -12%
Nevada 48 1.03 -14%
Florida 409 0.956 -21%
Mississippi 36 0.770 -36%
New Mexico 11 0.452 -63%
Hawaii 5 0.436 -64%
West Virginia 5 0.191 -84%
Wyoming – – –

State counts come from the Social Security Administration's state files, which omit any state-year with fewer than five babies of a name, so small states can undercount slightly.

The story of Margot

Margot is moderately common for girls in the United States, ranked #102 in 2025 with 2,575 babies given the name. It is currently rising compared with a decade ago.

Since 1894, 25,568 American babies have been named Margot. Its peak came in 2025, when 2,575 newborns received the name, the signature sound of the 2020s.

The chart above shows the full history: the popularity view (births per 1,000 babies) is the honest comparison across generations, since total US births have changed enormously since 1880. Switch to the rank view to see where Margot stood among all girls' names in any year, or use the compare tool to plot it against other names.

How old are people named Margot?

The median living Margot is about 6 years old; half are between 2 and 24. An estimated 23 thousand people named Margot are alive in the United States today.

median 6 020406080100

Estimated from births per year and Social Security period life tables; an approximation of the living age distribution, by age in years.

Margot year by year

Every year since 2001, and five-year steps back to 1880. Rank is within each sex.

Year Girls Girls rank
2025 2,575 #102
2024 2,227 #127
2023 1,933 #148
2022 1,527 #193
2021 1,530 #194
2020 1,269 #234
2019 1,065 #305
2018 882 #358
2017 860 #363
2016 745 #433
2015 505 #593
2014 377 #743
2013 268 #944
2012 237 #1,062
2011 185 #1,284
2010 155 #1,464
2009 159 #1,467
2008 144 #1,587
2007 132 #1,676
2006 111 #1,840
2005 96 #1,990
2004 107 #1,787
2003 126 #1,540
2002 115 #1,619
2001 92 #1,896
2000 90 #1,895
1995 91 #1,632
1990 87 #1,696
1985 112 #1,230
1980 91 #1,378
1975 55 #1,721
1970 86 #1,275
1965 112 #978
1960 140 #881
1955 114 #924
1950 97 #906
1945 133 #632
1940 125 #631
1935 113 #613
1930 98 #697
1925 40 #1,244
1920 55 #1,003
1915 29 #1,330
1910 12 #1,398
1905 6 #1,839
1900 11 #1,202
1895 – –
1890 – –
1885 – –
1880 – –

Famous people named Margot

The most globally famous bearers of the name, ranked by fame across Wikipedia editions (Pantheon project, MIT).

  1. 1 Margot Robbie Margot Robbie Australian actress and producer (born 1990) Contemporary
  2. 2 Margot Kidder Margot Kidder Canadian and American actress and activist (1948–2018) Contemporary
  3. 3 Margot Frank Margot Frank Older sister of Anne Frank and Holocaust victim (1926–1945) Contemporary
  4. 4 Margot Fonteyn Margot Fonteyn English ballerina (1919–1991) Contemporary
  5. 5 Margot Honecker Margot Honecker East German politician (1927–2016) Contemporary
  6. 6 Margot Wallström Margot Wallström Swedish politician (born 1954) Contemporary
  7. 7 Margot Hielscher Margot Hielscher German singer and actress 1919–2017 · Contemporary
  8. 8 Margot Käßmann Margot Käßmann German theologian and bishop (born 1958) Contemporary
  9. 9 Margot Boer Margot Boer Dutch speed skater b. 1985 · Contemporary

Portraits from Wikipedia (Wikimedia Commons).

Frequently asked questions

Quick answers about Margot, drawn from the same Social Security data as the charts above.

How old is the average Margot?

The median living Margot is about 6 years old. Half of all living Margots are between 2 and 24 years old.

How many people named Margot are alive today?

An estimated 23 thousand people named Margot are alive in the United States, based on 25,568 recorded births and Social Security life tables.

What does the name Margot mean?

A female given name from French.

How popular is the name Margot in 2025?

Margot ranked #102 among girls' names in the United States in 2025, with 2,575 babies given the name, according to Social Security Administration data.

How many people are named Margot?

25,568 babies have been named Margot in the United States since 1894, based on Social Security card applications.

When was the name Margot most popular?

Margot peaked in 2025, when 2,575 newborns received the name.

Is Margot a boy or girl name?

Margot is overwhelmingly a girl's name: 100% of babies with the name.

Is the name Margot rising or falling?

Margot is on the rise, noticeably more popular now than a decade ago.

Will Margot become more popular?

Margot is trending upward. If the recent trend holds, we project roughly 4,201 girls named Margot in 2030, which would rank around #50. Forecasts assume the current trend continues and become less certain further out.

Who are famous people named Margot?

Well-known people named Margot include Margot Robbie (actor), Margot Kidder (actor), Margot Frank (religious figure).

Names like Margot

Names that sound and feel close to Margot: shared sounds, similar era, similar popularity. Each links to its full history.

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