Margo
#559 for girls in 2025, 540 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #6,941
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1951 · 713 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 27,208since 1905
Margo over time
Rank among girls' names. Margo has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #559 | 540 | — | |
| 2024 | #544 | 556 | — | |
| 2023 | #543 | 556 | — | |
| 2022 | #617 | 481 | — | |
| 2021 | #639 | 464 | — | |
| 2020 | #765 | 356 | — | |
| 2019 | #840 | 321 | — | |
| 2018 | #975 | 271 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,075 | 236 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,039 | 254 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,275 | 191 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,464 | 153 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,754 | 117 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,047 | 94 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,000 | 98 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,313 | 82 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,316 | 84 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,078 | 98 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,328 | 82 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,353 | 80 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,254 | 80 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,117 | 85 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,019 | 89 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,897 | 93 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,941 | 89 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,659 | 106 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,719 | 94 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,543 | 108 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,504 | 108 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,498 | 108 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,410 | 116 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,331 | 127 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,211 | 143 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,274 | 134 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,314 | 126 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,130 | 153 | — | |
| 1989 | #995 | 173 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #952 | 176 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,044 | 148 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,088 | 137 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,023 | 147 | — | |
| 1984 | #979 | 147 | — | |
| 1983 | #802 | 194 | — | |
| 1982 | #750 | 222 | — | |
| 1981 | #714 | 233 | — | |
| 1980 | #917 | 164 | — | |
| 1979 | #833 | 187 | — | |
| 1978 | #842 | 176 | — | |
| 1977 | #819 | 183 | #5,123 | 6 |
| 1976 | #798 | 175 | — | |
| 1975 | #783 | 180 | — | |
| 1974 | #686 | 215 | — | |
| 1973 | #580 | 274 | — | |
| 1972 | #563 | 294 | — | |
| 1971 | #581 | 301 | — | |
| 1970 | #606 | 286 | — | |
| 1969 | #529 | 346 | #4,404 | 5 |
| 1968 | #525 | 335 | — | |
| 1967 | #492 | 375 | — | |
| 1966 | #486 | 371 | — | |
| 1965 | #521 | 336 | — | |
| 1964 | #478 | 410 | — | |
| 1963 | #464 | 436 | — | |
| 1962 | #445 | 464 | — | |
| 1961 | #455 | 461 | — | |
| 1960 | #479 | 422 | — | |
| 1959 | #440 | 476 | — | |
| 1958 | #438 | 469 | — | |
| 1957 | #405 | 519 | — | |
| 1956 | #399 | 512 | — | |
| 1955 | #374 | 555 | — | |
| 1954 | #315 | 715 | #3,827 | 5 |
| 1953 | #330 | 635 | — | |
| 1952 | #311 | 677 | — | |
| 1951 | #295 | 713 | — | |
| 1950 | #313 | 615 | — | |
| 1949 | #307 | 631 | — | |
| 1948 | #352 | 488 | — | |
| 1947 | #321 | 595 | — | |
| 1946 | #339 | 482 | — | |
| 1945 | #316 | 455 | — | |
| 1944 | #328 | 434 | — | |
| 1943 | #337 | 441 | — | |
| 1942 | #311 | 487 | #3,212 | 6 |
| 1941 | #297 | 474 | #3,133 | 6 |
| 1940 | #380 | 304 | — | |
| 1939 | #371 | 314 | — | |
| 1938 | #366 | 316 | — | |
| 1937 | #521 | 160 | — | |
| 1936 | #615 | 115 | — | |
| 1935 | #769 | 77 | — | |
| 1934 | #1,062 | 43 | — | |
| 1933 | #1,008 | 47 | — | |
| 1932 | #1,056 | 45 | — | |
| 1931 | #1,314 | 31 | — | |
| 1930 | #937 | 61 | — | |
| 1929 | #1,223 | 37 | — | |
| 1928 | #1,425 | 30 | — | |
| 1927 | #1,523 | 29 | — | |
| 1926 | #1,514 | 29 | — | |
| 1925 | #1,647 | 26 | — | |
| 1924 | #1,566 | 29 | — | |
| 1923 | #1,428 | 32 | — | |
| 1922 | #1,508 | 30 | — | |
| 1921 | #1,437 | 32 | — | |
| 1920 | #1,470 | 30 | — | |
| 1919 | #1,801 | 21 | — | |
| 1918 | #1,805 | 21 | — | |
| 1917 | #1,708 | 21 | — | |
| 1916 | #2,028 | 16 | — | |
| 1915 | #2,900 | 9 | — | |
| 1914 | #1,818 | 14 | — | |
| 1913 | #1,308 | 19 | — | |
| 1912 | #1,981 | 9 | — | |
| 1911 | #1,792 | 8 | — | |
| 1910 | #1,267 | 13 | — | |
| 1909 | #1,957 | 6 | — | |
| 1908 | #1,439 | 9 | — | |
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | #1,727 | 6 | — | |
| 1905 | #1,931 | 5 | — | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Margo! It came in at #1,931, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1907, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Margo
- 15 spots since 2024 (#544 → #559)
- 206 spots since 2020 (#765 → #559)
- 716 spots since 2015 (#1,275 → #559)
- Biggest jump: 293 spots in 1935 (#1,062 → #769)
- Biggest drop: 377 spots in 1931 (#937 → #1,314)
- Debuted 1905
- Peaked 1951 at #295 (713 births)
- Births halved by 1965, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 61 yrs · run 1935–1984
- Highest: 1 in 2,526 girls born in 1951 were named Margo (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,976 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 21.6% of all girls named Margo (5,886) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 26 | #1,439 (1908) | #1,764 |
| 1910s | 151 | #1,267 (1910) | #1,841 |
| 1920s | 304 | #1,223 (1929) | #1,474 |
| 1930s | 1,209 | #366 (1938) | #802 |
| 1940s | 4,791 | #297 (1941) | #329 |
| 1950s | 5,886 | #295 (1951) | #362 |
| 1960s | 3,956 | #445 (1962) | #487 |
| 1970s | 2,271 | #563 (1972) | #709 |
| 1980s | 1,741 | #714 (1981) | #926 |
| 1990s | 1,217 | #1,130 (1990) | #1,393 |
| 2000s | 886 | #1,659 (2000) | #2,096 |
| 2010s | 1,817 | #840 (2019) | #1,478 |
| 2020s | 2,953 | #543 (2023) | #611 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Margo in 1930
Top girls' names in 1930
More about 1930
girls
1,125,927 girls got a published name in 1930; 1 in 18,458 of them was named Margo, which outranked 82.1% of the 5,247 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).