Margarito

Where Margarito comes from

Margarito 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. 1882
    First appearance
    #837 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1928
    Peak, #685
    85 babies named Margarito — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1937
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #967.
  4. 1943
    Margarito Teves born
    Filipino politician
  5. 1958
    Margarito Salazar Cárdenas born
    Mexican roman catholic bishop
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Margarito Teves · Filipino politician, born 1943
  • Margarito Salazar Cárdenas · Mexican roman catholic bishop, born 1958
  • Margarito Flores García · Mexican priest, 1899–1927
  • Margarito González · Mexican footballer, born 1979
  • Margarito Lanza Flores · Cuban anti-communist rebel, 1938–1962

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.