Margret

Where Margret comes from

The dictionaries list Margret as a given name — a female given name, variant of Margaret — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #326 among girls — 24 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1882
    Peak, #285
    39 babies named Margret — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1938
    Margret Göbl born
    German pair skater
  4. 1997
    Margret Hassan born
    South Sudanese sprinter
  5. 2006
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #12,420.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Margaret.
Namesakes
  • Margret Göbl · German pair skater, 1938–2013
  • Margret Hassan · South Sudanese sprinter, born 1997
  • Margret Kreidl · Austrian author, born 1964
  • Margret Nissen · German photographer, born 1938
  • Margret Hölle · German writer and poet in dialect, 1927–2023

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.