Margaretha

Where Margaretha comes from

Margaretha 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. 1884
    First appearance
    #1,024 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1887
    Peak, #586
    15 babies named Margaretha — more than any year before or since.
  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

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

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.