Margo
Top 1000
About Margo
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.
As of October 2026, Margo ranked #559 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #295 in 1951, Nameberry popularity #370.
Editor's take: The name Margo is a girl's name of French origin meaning "pearl".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,467 | 153 | 85.6 |
| 2015 | #1,281 | 190 | 106.4 |
| 2016 | #1,044 | 254 | 143.3 |
| 2017 | #1,077 | 236 | 136.7 |
| 2018 | #978 | 270 | 158.7 |
| 2019 | #841 | 321 | 191.3 |
| 2020 | #765 | 356 | 220.2 |
| 2021 | #640 | 464 | 282.8 |
| 2022 | #617 | 481 | 293.3 |
| 2023 | #543 | 556 | 346.5 |
| 2024 | #545 | 555 | 342.6 |
| 2025 | #559 | 540 | 336 |
World rankings
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Famous Margos
- 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
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