Margarita

Where Margarita comes from

Borrowed from the Latin and Spanish Margarita (“Margaret”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Margarita
  • Ancient Greek
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1950
    Peak, #334
    535 babies named Margarita — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1980
    Margarita Levieva born
    Russian-born American actress
  4. 1980
    Margarita Simonyan born
    Russian journalist
  5. 2004
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #930.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Namesakes
  • Margarita Simonyan · Russian journalist, born 1980
  • Margarita Levieva · Russian-born American actress, born 1980
  • Margarita Salas · Spanish biochemist, 1938–2019
  • Margarita Xhepa · Albanian actress, 1932–2025
  • Margarita Aliger · Soviet poet, translator, and journalist, 1915–1992

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.