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Marguerite

Rooted in French, Marguerite is a girl's name that means "French for daisy". It belongs mostly to the 1910s at this point. These days, it is neither rare nor overly common. It has appeared in U.S. birth records in nearly every decade since 1900, a genuinely long run.

FrenchFrench for "daisy"
GreekFrom Greek "margarites" – "pearl"
Births by decade
1900s
7,918
1910s
22,685
1920s
21,818
1930s
9,352
1940s
8,121
1950s
7,439
1960s
3,508
1970s
1,194
1980s
1,153
1990s
1,157
2000s
929
2010s
601
Peaked in the 1910s · 85,875 total U.S. births since 1900