Margherita
About Margherita
This elegant variation carries the same core meaning as Margaret while featuring the distinctive Italian pronunciation and spelling. The name has historical significance in Italy, where Saint Margherita of Cortona is a respected religious figure and Queen Margherita is the namesake of the Margherita pizza.
Margherita has remained consistently used in Italy and Italian communities worldwide, and can make an original honor name for an ancestral Margaret. But in the US, this name will forever be misspelled, mispronounced, and misunderstood as the more familiar Spanish Margarita, which may be why it was given to fewer than five baby girls in the US last year.
Pronounced mar-guh-REE-tuh.
As of October 2026, Margherita ranked #14670 in US births in 2022 SSA, peaked at #1338 in 1898.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
World rankings
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Margherita on lists
Famous Margheritas
- Margherita Maria Teresa Giovanna of Savoy
Queen consort of Umberto I of Italy
- Margherita Isabella Maria Vittoria Emanuela Elena Gennara
Archduchess consort of Robert of Austria,Este
- Margherita Missoni
Italian fashion designer, model and actress
- Margherita Sarfatti
Italian biographer and mistress of Benito Mussolini
- Margherita Maria Teresa Enrichetta
Princess of Bourbon,Parma, daughter of Charles III, Duke of Parma
- Margherita Buy
Italian actress
- Margherita "Madge" Evans
American actress
- Margherita Zalaffi
Italian Olympic fencer
- Margherita Granbassi
Italian Olympic fencer
- Margherita Hack
Italian astrophysicist
- Margherita de' Medici
Duchess and Regent of Parma and Piacenza
- Margherita Boniver
Italian politician
- Margherita Carosio
Italian operatic soprano