Margaretha

Where Margaretha comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Margaretha.

  • Vowel-ended
Margaretha through the years
  1. 1884
    First appearance
    #1,024 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1887
    Peak, #586
    15 babies named Margaretha, its best rank.
  3. 1888
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,136.
  4. 1925
    Margaretha Krook born
    Swedish actress
  5. 1976
    Margaretha Sigfridsson born
    Swedish curler and coach
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Margaretha Krook · Swedish actress, 1925–2001
  • Margaretha Sigfridsson · Swedish curler and coach, born 1976
  • Margaretha af Ugglas · Swedish politician, 1939–2026
  • Margaretha Kirch · German astronomer, 1703–1744
  • Margaretha Lindahl · Swedish curler, born 1974

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.