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Baby name
Margaret
Girl
Origin of the name
Margaret comes from the Latin margarita, “pearl,” itself from Greek. It is the English form of the French Marguerite.
Classic name
1,264,774births since 1880
1920sgeneration
No. 4rank at its peak, in 1921
Where babies named Margaret are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Margaret is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Margaret is most common in Pennsylvania (1.9 times), District of Columbia (1.8) and Delaware (1.5), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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