Margo

French, diminutive of Margaret

"pearl"

Margo Origin and Meaning

The name Margo is a girl's name of French origin meaning "pearl".

Margo and Margot sound exactly the same, so why has the Margot spelling hopped back onto the Top 1000, outpacing Margo in numbers more than two to one? (Over 350 baby girls were named Margot in the most recent year, versus 150 named Margo.)

Credit the Gwyneth Paltrow character Margot in The Royal Tennenbaums and hot Australian star Margot Robbie. And maybe to some parents, the Margot spelling seems more like a complete name.

But it may also create some pronunciation confusion. And Margo gives you the same blend of fashionable o-ending and classic feel.

Margo Rank in US Top 1000

# 545 in the US

Margo Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 276 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Margo

• 545 US 2024
• 276 Nameberry 2025
• 393 England 2024

20 Names Similar to Margo

These 20 names were selected by our users that were looking for other names like Margo.

• Nellie
• Lottie
• Bea
• Greta
• Hattie
• Pippa
• Tess
• Marnie
• Nell
• Della
• Effie
• Winnie
• Etta
• Edie
• Ida
• Tillie
• Kit
• Mavis
• Laurel
• Darcy

Famous People Named Margo

• Margo Cathleen Harshman American actress
• Margo Martindale American Actress
• Margo Rey (born Margarita Reymundo) Mexican,American singer,songwriter
• Margo (born María Marguerita Guadalupe Teresa Estela Bolado Castilla y O'Donnell) Mexican,American actress
• Margo (born Margeret Catherine O'Donnell) Irish country music singer
• Małgorzata "Margo" Dydek Polish basketball player
• Margo Symington MacDonald Scottish politician
• Margaret Isabel Mabel "Margo" Durrell younger sister of novelist Lawrence Durrell, featured in his Corfu novels

The name Margo in Pop Culture

• Margo Hughes character on American soap opera As the World Turns
• Margo Dunne character in book/film Gone Girl
• Margo Gru character in the Despicable Me movies
• Margo Lane character in The Shadow series
• Margo Roth Spiegelman character in John Green's Paper Towns
• Margo character in film "Lars and the Real Girl"
• Margo Dowling film star character in the "U.S.A." trilogy by John Dos Passos
• Margo Pike Mallory Pike's sister in the Baby,Sitters club series by Ann M. Martin
• Margo Masse character in movie "Fear" played by Alyssa Milano
• Margo Barclay character from Perfect Harmony, by Barbara Wood
• Margo Channing character from the film, All About Eve
• Margo character in Siobhan Vivian's "The List"
• Margo a character in film Meet The Spartans
• Margo Sherman a character on animated series The Critic
• Margo Leadbetter a character on British TV series The Good Life
• Margo Magee character in newspaper comic strip Apartment 3G
• Margo Huntington character on TV's The Edge of Night
• Margo Hanson a character on TV's The Magicians
• Margo Bardem character in the Ruby Redfort book series by Lauren Child