Margrit
given name · German · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Margrit is a given name, most frequently recorded in Germany. It appears chiefly in German and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name from Margarete, equivalent to English Margaret.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.5K◐
- DEGermany1 in 7.8K
- USUnited States1 in 40K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈16K ●
- Sources
- 119 ●
- 1 in 75 ◐
across 9 countries
26K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Margret in TW Taiwan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
a female given name from Margarete, equivalent to English Margaret
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #773 | 15,496 | 14K rec. | — | 2 | Margrit | 109 |
| US United States | — | 8,406 | 7.4K rec. | 1 in 40K | 8.4K | Margrit | 119 |
| CH Switzerland | #117 | 5,305 | 1.4K rec. | — | — | Margrit | 58 |
| IS Iceland | — | 4,677△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 75 | 4.7K | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 2,216△ | 11 rec. | 1 in 4.6K | 2.2K | Margrit | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 654△ | 113 rec. | 1 in 26K | 654 | Margrit | 17 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 493 | 443 rec. | — | listed | Margrit | 40 |
| AU Australia | — | 363 | 352 rec. | — | 3 | Margrit | 35 |
| AT Austria | — | 215 | 121 rec. | — | 118 | Margrit | 33 |
| CA Canada | — | 194 | 192 rec. | — | 1 | Margrit | 26 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 156 | 182 rec. | — | — | Margrit | 3 |
| AR Argentina | — | 109 | 98 rec. | — | 3 | Margrit | 10 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- German21K59%
- English6.7K19%
- Portuguese1.3K4%
- Spanish1.2K3%
- French6262%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| German | 21,350 | 59% |
| English | 6,737 | 19% |
| Portuguese | 1,325 | 4% |
| Spanish | 1,247 | 3% |
| French | 626 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Margrit is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 50 |
| 2000 | 49 |
| 2001 | 49 |
| 2002 | 52 |
| 2003 | 52 |
| 2004 | 55 |
| 2005 | 55 |
| 2006 | 54 |
| 2007 | 55 |
| 2008 | 57 |
| 2009 | 57 |
| 2010 | 56 |
| 2011 | 55 |
| 2012 | 54 |
| 2013 | 53 |
| 2014 | 53 |
| 2015 | 54 |
| 2016 | 54 |
| 2017 | 54 |
| 2018 | 52 |
| 2019 | 51 |
| 2020 | 48 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Margrit Rainerb. 1914CHSwiss actress (1914-1982)
- Margrit Weimeisterb. 1933DEGerman politician
- Margrit Kennedyb. 1939DEGerman architect (1939-2013)
- Margrit Spielmannb. 1943DEGerman politician
- Margrit Olfertb. 1947DEEast German athlete
- Margrit Schillerb. 1948DEGerman criminal
- Margrit Wetzelb. 1950DEGerman politician
- Margrit von Braunb. 1952USAmerican scientist and professor
- Margrit Sartoriusb. 1974DEGerman actress
- Kathrin Lehmannb. 1980CHnot in their usual nameGerman-Swiss ice hockey player and association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 36 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 732 | #15,635 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 143 | #4,447 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 100 | #22,305 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 86 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 85 | #45,833 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 75 | #10,369 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 61 | #10,571 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 59 | #10,756 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 58 | #45,261 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 58 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 57 | #24,947 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 57 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 99 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Margrit?
- We estimate roughly 16 thousand people bear Margrit (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Margrit have the most bearers?
- Margrit is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled margrit.
- Where is Margrit most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Margrit is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 75 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Margrit compared with other names?
- In Germany, Margrit is the 773rd most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.
- Is Margrit a male or female name?
- Margrit is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Margrit mean?
- Recorded meaning: a female given name from Margarete, equivalent to English Margaret
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Margrit” — the 773rd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.