Feminine dossier · first seen 1880

Margaretta

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Margaretta
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1915

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Greatest Generation

1880Peak 19152024

Peak year

1915

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

2,535

Margaretta has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Greatest Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1915, when 76 girls were named Margaretta.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 2,535 Americans have been named Margaretta and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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