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Margot
Say it: mar-GOH
Meaning
French pet form of Marguerite, from Greek margaritēs 'pearl'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
An old nickname that became a popular given name in France from the 1990s.
Its wave through time
Rising now
In the United States
- 15,759 babies given this name since 1894
- At its height in 2020, about 1 in 1,300 girls
- 1,257 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Margaux
| English | Margot |
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Famous bearers
- Marguerite de Valois, known as 'la reine Margot'
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Where this comes from
- Royal and noble genealogies
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.