Girls' name · peaked in 1897

Marguerite name popularity since 1925

42,669 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Marguerite. Half of them were born in 1944 or earlier, so the typical Marguerite is about 82 years old in 2026. Marguerite peaked in 1897 as the #78 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 42,669; Named Marguerite, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1897; #78 for girls that year
Typical age: About 82; Median birth year 1944
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #2,505 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 99.9% girls; 42,605 girls · 64 boys
Most popular in: Rhode Island; 3.47× its national share

Peak year is the year Marguerite made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Marguerite births per year, 1925–2025

The biggest year on this chart was 1925. Measured as a share of all babies, Marguerite peaked earlier, in 1897.

Steepest fall: Between 1966 and 1971, Marguerite's share of baby girls fell by 56%, from 1 in 5,800 to 1 in 13,100.

Shaded on the chart. This compares Marguerite's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Marguerite.

Decade by decade

Babies named Marguerite in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	8,570	30	–
1930s	9,328	24	#207
1940s	8,116	5	#254
1950s	7,434	5	#319
1960s	3,510	0	#501
1970s	1,194	0	#1,017
1980s	1,153	0	#1,222
1990s	1,157	0	#1,375
2000s	929	0	#2,398
2010s	762	0	#2,335
2020–25	452	0	#2,505

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.

Generation fingerprint

39.7% of babies named Marguerite from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Silent Generation years (1928–1945). The full split by generation:

Where Marguerite is most popular

The index compares Marguerite's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Marguerite.

State	Index	Babies
Rhode Island	3.47×	476
Massachusetts	2.96×	2,728
Maine	2.94×	487
District of Columbia	2.36×	420
New York	1.98×	5,811

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Marguerite's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Marguerite.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Marguerite (1897).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data