girls:
40k births since 1880
#677 (88th percentile)
boys:
195 births since 1918
#4391 (4th percentile)
overall:
40.2k births since 1880
#1235 (84th percentile)
The name Margarita is the #1,235 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 40,203 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 84.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #677 (88.2% percentile) for all time with 40,008 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,391 (4.2% percentile) for all time with 195 births since 1918.
Margarita has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1918 for boys). Birth data for Margarita is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (143 years for girls and 30 years for boys). 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.
The name Margarita has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Margarita reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 53.5% percentile (ranked #358) with 283 births per million. The name was most common in 1966, with 322 births per million (ranked 51.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1994, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Margarita ranks #838 for girls (11.5% percentile) with 65 births per million, which is 20.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Margarita reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #537) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Margarita".
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Our model has identified 10 different pronunciations for the name Margarita. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 24.6% confident that Margarita is pronounced as mahr-ger-EE-tuh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAHR-ger-EE-tuh, at 20.3% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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