Margot
- Pronunciation
- [Mar-got]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Pearl
- Origin
- French
About the Name Margot
Margot is the French short form of Margaret (see separate entry on Margaret for the Persian-Greek-Latin etymology meaning "pearl"). The French Margot (with the silent T) has been used continuously in French naming for centuries, anchored by 16th-century French queen Marguerite "Margot" de Valois (Queen Margot, 1553–1615, the queen consort of King Henry IV of France whose colorful life inspired Alexandre Dumas's 1845 novel La Reine Margot and Patrice Chéreau's 1994 film of the same name).
The contemporary American Margot surge is essentially a 21st-century phenomenon, accelerated significantly by Australian actress Margot Robbie (born 1990, the international film star whose career through The Wolf of Wall Street, Suicide Squad, I, Tonya, and especially the 2023 box-office phenomenon Barbie made her one of the most-recognized actresses globally). The Margot Robbie effect on American naming has been substantial.
Margot's American climb is one of the most striking recent girls'-naming surges: the name climbed from outside the US top 500 in 2010 to the US top 200 girls' rank by 2018 and the top 100 by 2022. The name's appeal is its compact French elegance — two short syllables (with the silent T), the in-built classical pedigree from the Margaret root, and the modern Hollywood cultural anchor. The name reads as both classical-French and contemporary American. Common nicknames are scarce since the name is already short — Mar (the dominant short form, casual and adult), Maggie (more often associated with the longer Margaret form), and the rare Margi each carry distinct registers; the longer formal Margaret is sometimes used as Margot's official-document version. International forms include Marguerite (longer French), Margherita (Italian), Margarita (Spanish), and the broader Margaret family.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Margot
US Popularity History (2013–2025)
Annual US births named Margot by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2025 with 2,575 girls named Margot (girl rank #102 that year).
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Margot Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Margot the strongest states are District of Columbia, Alaska, Rhode Island.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | District of Columbia | #70 | 123 |
| 2 | Alaska | #127 | 19 |
| 3 | Rhode Island | #158 | 33 |
| 4 | Colorado | #162 | 372 |
| 5 | Oregon | #162 | 230 |
| 6 | Maine | #163 | 55 |
| 7 | Montana | #165 | 43 |
| 8 | New Hampshire | #168 | 62 |
| 9 | Massachusetts | #177 | 338 |
| 10 | Washington | #185 | 380 |
Weakest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mississippi | #454 | 35 |
| 2 | Arizona | #437 | 178 |
| 3 | South Carolina | #434 | 135 |
| 4 | Alabama | #401 | 141 |
| 5 | Florida | #398 | 494 |
| 6 | Nevada | #392 | 56 |
| 7 | New Jersey | #344 | 271 |
| 8 | Oklahoma | #336 | 131 |
| 9 | North Carolina | #335 | 364 |
| 10 | Iowa | #335 | 108 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Margot in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
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Compare Margot to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Margot against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).
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