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 | — | |
| 1904 | — | — | ||
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| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 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 1977
Top girls' names in 1977
Top boys' names in 1977
More about 1977
girls
1,533,146 girls got a published name in 1977; 1 in 8,378 of them was named Margo, which outranked 92.8% of the 11,329 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,643,220 boys got a published name in 1977; 1 in 273,870 of them was named Margo, which outranked 25.3% of the 6,861 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,582Zerrick7
- #4,582Zeyad7
- #4,582Zuberi7
- #5,123Margo6
- #5,123Aamir6
- #5,123Aaryn6
- #5,123Abbas6
- #5,845Aashish5
- #5,845Abby5
- #5,845Abdual5
Tied with 721 names at #5,123; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.