Marguerite
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Marguerite
Marguerite is a classic French name with a remnant of old-fashioned Gallic charm; and is also a variety of daisy. Chic again in Paris, it's definitely ripe for revival here.
Another reason you might want to consider it: Saint Marguerite was an adventurous 17th century nun who set up schools throughout wilderness Quebec. Marguerite has also been a French royal name.
Marguerite was in the Top 100 in this country from 1890 to 1921.
Probably its most famous fictional bearer is Marguerite Gautier, tragic heroine of the Alexandre Dumas novel La Dame aux Camelias, known in film as Camille and played most notably by Greta Garbo. Marguerite is also the heroine of Gounod's Faust and the Scarlet Pimpernel novels.
Marguerite Duras wrote many novels, plays and films, most notably the bestselling L'Amant (The Lover,) which became a successful film, and she also was the screenwriter of Hiroshima mon amour.
Maya Angelou was born Marguerite; it was her younger brother who shortened it.
Marguerite is also given to boys.
Pronounced mar-ger-EET.
As of October 2026, Marguerite ranked #2505 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #78 in 1917, Nameberry popularity #947.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,458 | 74 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #2,334 | 80 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #2,440 | 76 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #2,123 | 91 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #2,320 | 79 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #2,299 | 79 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #2,460 | 71 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #2,301 | 80 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #2,441 | 75 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #2,302 | 80 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #2,415 | 75 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #2,505 | 71 | — | 0 |
World rankings
Marguerite for girls
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Marguerite on lists
Famous Marguerites
- Saint Marguerite BourgeoysGirl
French,Canadian nun
- Marguerite Louise d'OrléansGirl
Grand Duchess consort of Cosimo III de' Medici of Tuscany
- Marguerite de NavarreGirl
Princess of France, Queen consort of Henry II of Navarre
- Marguerite HenryGirl
American children's novelist
- Marguerite Georges (born MargueriteGirl
Josephine Weimer), French actress
- Marguerite MoreauGirl
American actress
- Marguerite MacIntyreGirl
American actress
- Marguerite Yourcenar (born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour)Girl
Belgian novelist
- (Hilda Elise) Marguerite PattenGirl
English cookery writer and TV personality
- Marguerite Alice "Missy" LeHandGirl
secretary to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt
- Marguerite Ann JohnsonGirl
birth name of American author Maya Angelou
- Marguerite "Dixy Lee" RayGirl
American politician; 17th governor of Washington
- Marguerite DurasGirl
French writer and film director
- Marguerite StimpsonGirl
American actress
- Marguerite MonnotGirl
French composer and songwriter
- Marguerite WhittenGirl
American actress
- Marguerite ChapmanGirl
American actress
- Marguerite BennettGirl
American comic book writer
- MargueriteGirl
Charlotte Pécoul, French wife and model for painter Jacques,Louis David
- Marguerite De La MotteGirl
American actress
Marguerite in pop culture
- Marguerite KingGirl
character in film Swing High, Swing Low
- Marguerite GautierGirl
main character in La Dame aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas and film "Camille"(1936)
- Marguerite St. JustGirl
main female character in 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' series
- Marguerite CaineGirl
main character in A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray aka Amy Vincent
- MargueriteGirl
wife of Eddie in 'The Five People You Meet in Heaven' by Mitch Albom
- MargueriteGirl
the heroine of Gounod's opera Faust
- Tomoe MargueriteGirl
character in the anime and manga My,Otome
- "Marguerite VolantGirl
" Canadian miniseries and its main character
- Marguerite Francois Louise de GhentGirl
evil stepsister to Danielle in "Ever After"
- Marguerite BakerGirl
character in the video game "Resident Evil 7: Biohazard"
Variations & nicknames
- MargieGirl
- MargyGirl
- MargoGirl
- RitaGirl
- DaisyGirl
- MargareteGirl
- MargarethaGirl
- MargaretheGirl
- MargariteGirl
- MargaruiteGirl
- MargeriteGirl
- MarghanitaGirl
- MargheritaGirl
- MarguarettaGirl
- MarguaretteGirl
- MarguariteGirl
- MargueretteGirl
- MargueritaGirl
- MarguriteGirl