Margo

Where Margo comes from

Margo 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. 1905
    First appearance
    #1,931 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1951
    Margo Martindale born
    American actress
  3. 1951
    Peak, #295
    713 babies named Margo — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #521.
  5. 1986
    Margo Harshman born
    American actress
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Margo Martindale · American actress, born 1951
  • Margo Harshman · American actress, born 1986
  • Margo · American actress, 1917–1985
  • Margo Stilley · American actress, born 1982
  • Margo Price · American singer-songwriter, born 1983

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.