Margarethe
Margarethe reached its high-water mark in 1891 at number 1,006, and has been recorded 62 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1994. About 20 Margarethes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 62.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Margarethe
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 62
- Estimated living today
- 20
- Median age today
- 62
- Peak year
- 1891
- Best rank
- 1,006th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1891
How old the living Margarethes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 62 babies given the name since 1891, about 20 are alive — 33 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1963 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Margarethes
- Margarethe von Trotta (born 1942)German film director
- Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria (1870–1955)archduchess of Austria
- Margarethe Lenore Selenka (1860–1923)German paleontologist, anthropologist and feminist
- Margarethe Danzi (1768–1800)German composer and singer
- Margarethe Kahn (1880–1942)German mathematician and Holocaust victim
People named Margarethe with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 1891
The most popular girls’ names the year Margarethe peaked:
Margarethe elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Margarethe | 20 | 2,091st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Margarethe by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 11 | 299th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Margarethe among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Margarethe | — | 77 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Margarethe against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.