Margarete

Where Margarete comes from

Margarete hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1847
    Margarete Steiff born
    foundress of Margarete Steiff GmbH in Germany
  2. 1884
    First appearance
    #1,024 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1888
    Peak, #753
    12 babies named Margarete — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1891
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1897
    Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky born
    Austrian architect
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky · Austrian architect, 1897–2000
  • Margarete Steiff · foundress of Margarete Steiff GmbH in Germany, 1847–1909
  • Margarete Buber-Neumann · German writer, 1901–1989
  • Margarete Schramböck · Austrian manager and politician, born 1970
  • Margarete Adler · Austrian swimmer, diver, and gymnast, 1896–1990

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.