Girl
Margarita
The name Margarita carries the meaning "Spanish/Greek", with roots in Spanish. It is not as common as it was in the 1950s, though it has not disappeared. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. Few names stick around this long: it shows up across almost the entire twelve-decade span this registry covers.
SpanishSpanish/Greek
EtymologyMeaning "pearl"
Births by decade
1900s
431
1910s
1,214
1920s
2,913
1930s
2,601
1940s
3,355
1950s
5,465
1960s
5,313
1970s
4,794
1980s
4,329
1990s
4,842
2000s
2,845
2010s
1,138
Peaked in the 1950s · 39,240 total U.S. births since 1900