Margaretta

girls:

2.5k births since 1880

#3440 (40th percentile)

overall:

2.5k births since 1880

#5309 (31st percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Margaretta is the #5,309 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,535 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 31.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 31.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,440 (39.8% percentile) for all time with 2,535 births since 1880.

Margaretta has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Margaretta is available in 109 out of the 128 years between 1880 and 2007. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.

For girls, Margaretta reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 12.7% percentile (ranked #488) with 74 births per million. The name was most common in 1884, with 109 births per million (ranked 4.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2007.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Margaretta".

1880 2007 18802007

Key Statistics

Total Births
2,535
Peak Births
76
Peak Year
1915
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
12.7%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#488
Current Rank
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Margaretta

Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Margaretta. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 34.6% confident that Margaretta is pronounced as MAHR-ger-EH-tuh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mahr-ger-EH-tuh, at 21.2% confidence, with 4 syllables.

MAHR-ger-EH-tuh (4 syllables)
34.6% confidence
M AA1 R G ER0 EH1 T AH0
mahr-ger-EH-tuh (4 syllables)
21.2% confidence
M AA0 R G ER0 EH1 T AH0
MAHR-guh-REH-tuh (4 syllables)
17.3% confidence
M AA1 R G AH0 R EH1 T AH0
MAHR-ger-eh-tuh (4 syllables)
7.7% confidence
M AA1 R G ER0 EH0 T AH0
MAHR-greh-tuh (3 syllables)
5.8% confidence
M AA1 R G R EH0 T AH0
mahr-guh-REH-tuh (4 syllables)
5.8% confidence
M AA0 R G AH0 R EH1 T AH0
mahr-GER-eh-tuh (4 syllables)
3.8% confidence
M AA0 R G ER1 EH0 T AH0
MAHR-GREH-tuh (3 syllables)
3.8% confidence
M AA1 R G R EH1 T AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like M AA1 R G ER0 EH1 T AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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