Girl
Margaret
Margaret means "Pearl" and comes from Greek, giving it real etymological depth as a girl's name. It belongs mostly to the 1920s at this point. These days, it is a household name. Few names stick around this long: it shows up across almost the entire twelve-decade span this registry covers.
GreekPearl
PersianUltimately from the word for pearl
Births by decade
1900s
58,139
1910s
189,705
1920s
245,705
1930s
158,069
1940s
173,502
1950s
149,887
1960s
82,123
1970s
32,072
1980s
30,512
1990s
31,353
2000s
23,910
2010s
15,461
Peaked in the 1920s · 1,190,438 total U.S. births since 1900