Margot

What Margot means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Margot yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #592 in 2015, #102 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Margot?

US: Rising: up from #592 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #273 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 2,575 girls got the name (#102 that year). First in the US records in 1894.

How common

• About 1 in 624 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 206 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 338 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in DC (6.93 per 1,000 girls), VT (5.13 per 1,000 girls), MT (4.25 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Margot is #102 in the US and #30 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Margot were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Margo

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Margot

Girls

• Jane#221“God is gracious”^*
• Louise#514Feminine form of Louis, meaning “loud; famous + battle”^*
• Colette#316Editor’s note Up from #525 in 2015 to #316 in 2025 in the US
• Noelle#202Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #202 vs #705 in 2025
• Rosalie#171“rose”^*
• Odette#881French, meaning “riches”^*

For a brother

• Augustine#545Same root as Austin, meaning “majestic”^*
• Bo#449Swedish, from Old Norse Búi, meaning “dweller, long-time resident”^*
• Noel#478French, meaning “birthday of the Lord”^*
• Marcel#730Editor’s note Up from #771 in 2015 to #730 in 2025 in the US
• Lewis#433Same root as Louis, meaning “loud; famous + battle”^*
• Julien#709Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #709 vs #3,256 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under French, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Margot’s. Rank is US 2025.