Margaret

A female given name: from a Greek word meaning “pearl.”.

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Margaret is a female first name, originally derived from Persian "Morvared" meaning Pearl and in Sanskrit मञ्जरी mañjarī meaning 'pearl' or 'cluster of blossoms.' Other spelling variations are French (Marguerite) and Latin (Margarita) from Greek Margarites. It means pearl or flower.
Margaret has been an English name since the 11th century, and remained popular throughout the Middle Ages. It became less popular between the 16th century and 18th century, but became more common again after this period, becoming the second most popular name in the United States in 1903. Since this time, it has become less common, but was still the ninth most common name for women of all ages in the United States as of the 1990 census.
Margaret has a large number of diminutive forms in many different languages.

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Fem. proper name (c. 1300), from Old French Margaret (French Marguerite), from Late Latin Margarita, female name, literally "pearl," from Greek margarites (lithos) "pearl," of unknown origin, "probably adopted from some Oriental language" [OED]; compare Sanskrit manjari "cluster of flowers," also said by Indian linguists to mean "pearl," cognate with manju "beautiful." Arabic marjan probably is from Greek, via Syraic marganitha. The word was widely perverted in Germanic languages by folk-etymology, for example Old English meregrot, which has been altered to mean literally "sea-pebble."

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Pearl.

Maggie, Margrete, May, Mairead, Molly, Megan, Madge, Greta, Peggy, Marge, Margie, Marketta, Rita

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Margaret Thatcher	1925	British stateswoman and politician
2	Margaret Sanger	1879	Birth control activist, educator and nurse from the United States
3	Margaret Keane	1927	American artist known for creating the Big Eye motif, and who mainly paints women, children, and animals in oil or mixed media
4	Margaret Trudeau	1948	Ex-wife of the late Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau
5	Margaret Atwood	1939	Canadian writer
6	Margaret Tudor	1489	Scottish Queen consort
7	Margaret Cho	1968	American stand-up comedian
8	Margaret Qualley	1994	American actress and model
9	Margaret Brown	1867	A great heroine, survivor of the sinking of the Titanic
10	Margaret Court	1942	Australian tennis player
11	Lady Margaret Beaufort	1443	Countess of Richmond and Derby
12	Margaret Hamilton	1902	American film character actress
13	Margaret of Anjou	1430	15th-century English royal consort
14	Margaret Mead	1901	American anthropologist
15	Margaret Abbott	1878	Amateur golfer
16	Margaret Colin	1958	American actress
17	Margaret of Valois	1553	Queen of France
18	Margaret O'Brien	1937	American film, television and stage actress
19	Margaret Mitchell	1900	American author and journalist
20	Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury	1473	Peer
21	Margaret Rutherford	1892	English actress
22	Margaret Sullavan	1909	Actress
23	Margaret Hoover	1977	American political commentator
24	Margaret Durrell	1920	Younger sister of novelist Lawrence Durrell
25	Margaret Truman	1924	American author of murder mysteries; daughter of 33rd President of the United States Harry S. Truman
26	Margaret Rhodes	1925	First cousin of Queen Elizabeth II
27	Margaret Avery	1944	Actress from the United States
28	Margaret Whitton	1950	American actress
29	Margaret Fuller	1810	American feminist, poet, author, and activist
30	Margaret Beckett	1943	British politician
31	Margaret Douglas	1515	Daughter of Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, and Margaret Tudor, Queen Dowager of Scotland
32	Margaret Bourke-White	1904	American photographer
33	Margaret I of Denmark	1353	Queen of Denmark
34	Margaret Woodrow Wilson	1886	Acting first lady of the united States
35	Margaret Field	1922	American actress
36	Margaret Brennan		American journalist
37	Margaret Chase Smith	1897	Member of the United States Senate from Maine
38	Margaret Chan	1947	Director-General of the World Health Organization
39	Margaret Dumont	1882	Actress
40	Margaret Carnegie Miller	1897	American philanthropist
41	Margaret Lockwood	1916	Stage and film actress
42	Margaret Drabble	1939	Novelist, biographer and critic
43	Margaret Leighton	1922	Actress from England
44	Margaret Murray	1863	British egyptologist
45	Margaret Spellings	1957	8th United States Secretary of Education
46	Margaret Wise Brown	1910	American children's writer and editor
47	Margaret Hodge	1944	British politician
48	Margaret Wambui	1995	Kenyan runner
49	Margaret Nolan	1943	English actor-model
50	Margaret	1991	Polish singer and fashion blogger
51	Margaret Theresa of Spain	1651	Holy Roman empress
52	Margaret Thompson		Fictional character in Boardwalk Empire
53	Margaret Mary Ray	1952	The train
54	Margaret Forster	1938	British writer
55	Margaret Suckley	1891	American archivist
56	Margaret Katherine Majer	1898
57	Margaret Travolta	1969	American actress
58	Margaret Kemble Gage	1734	Wife of General Thomas Gage
59	Margaret Garner	1834	United States fugitive slave
60	Margaret the Virgin	0275	Saint (275–304) usually shown with a dragon
61	Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne	1623	English aristocrat, a prolific writer, and a scientist
62	Margaret Sixel	2000	Australian film editor
63	Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll	1912	British socialite
64	Margaret Humphreys	1944	British social worker
65	Margaret Whiting	1924	US-American singer
66	Marguerite Marie Alacoque	1647	Nun, mystic and saint
67	Margaret Weis	1948	American fantasy novelist
68	Margaret Lea Houston	1819	First Lady of the Republic/State of Texas
69	Margaret MacMillan	1943	Canadian historian
70	Margaret Ann Neve	1792	Guernsey supercentenarian
71	Margaret Mountford	1951	British lawyer, businesswoman and television personality
72	Margaret of York	1472	Daughter of Edward IV
73	Margaret Lindsay	1910	Actress
74	Margaret Clitherow	1555	Martyr and saint of Roman Catholic Church
75	Margaret Hughes	1645	British actress
76	Margaret Taylor	1788	First Lady of the United States
77	Margaret I. Cuomo		American radiologist
78	Margaret Tyzack	1931	British actress
79	Margaret Roper	1505	Translator and letter writer
80	Margaret Grubb	1907	American aviator
81	Margaret Peterson Haddix	1964	American author
82	Margaret Mahler	1897	Hungarian born American psychiatrist & psychoanalyst
83	Margaret John	1926	Welsh actress
84	Margaret Laurence	1926	Canadian writer
85	Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington	1939	British baroness
86	Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy	1480	Austrian archduchess
87	Margaret Kerry	1929	American actress, author, radio host, motivational speaker
88	Margaret E. Knight	1838	American inventor
89	Margaret Floy Washburn	1871	American psychologist & scholar
90	Margaret of Parma	1522	Italian noble
91	Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland	1456	Queen consort of Scotland
92	Margaret Warner	1950	American journalist
93	Margaret Hart Ferraro	1913	American burlesque performer
94	Margaret Hayes	1916	American actress
95	Margaret Glaspy
96	Margaret Gakuo Kenyatta	1964	First Lady of Kenya
97	Margaret Corbin	1751	Continental Army soldier
98	Margaret of England	1240	Queen of Scotland
99	Margaret Alva	1942	Governor of the Indian state of Rajasthan
100	Margaret Pellegrini	1923	American actress
101	Margaret Kilgallen	1967	American artist
102	Margaret Carlson	1988	American Journalist
103	Margaret Gorman	1905	Miss America Winner
104	Margaret MacDonald	1865	Scottish artist
105	Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Stafford	1427	British countess
106	Margaret Urlich	1965	New Zealand singer
107	Margaret Howe Lovatt	1942	American animal behavior scientist
108	Margaret of Provence	1221	Queen of France 1234-1270
109	Margaret Bondfield	1873	British feminist and trade unionist
110	Margaret Langrick	1971	Canadian actress
111	Margaret of France, Queen of England	1282	Queen of England
112	Margaret Wycherly	1881	English stage and film actress
113	Margaret Singer	1921	Clinical psychology
114	Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso	1405	English noblewoman
115	Margaret Osborne duPont	1918	American tennis player
116	Margaret Preston	1875	Australian artist
117	Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain	1584	Queen consort of Spain
118	Margaret Tebbit		Nurse and terrorist victim
119	Margaret Ladd	1942	Actress
120	Margaret Mahy	1936	New Zealand children's writer
121	Margaret Rudin	1943	American murderer
122	Margaret Walker	1915	American poet and writer
123	Margaret Hassan	1945	Irish aid worker
124	Margaret Heckler	1931	American politician
125	Margaret Heffernan	1955	American businesswoman
126	Margaret Sheridan	1926	American actress
127	Margaret of Burgundy, Queen of France	1290	Queen of France
128	Margaret Jones	1613	American midwife hanged after conviction for allegedly practicing witchcraft
129	Margaret Calvert	1936	English graphic designer and typographer
130	Margaret Utinsky	1900	American humanitarian
131	Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry	1523	Daughter of King Francis I of France
132	Margaret Gardiner	1959	South African beauty pageant contestant
133	Margaret Anstee	1926	British diplomat and writer
134	Margaret Livingston	1895	American actress
135	Margaret Ogola	1958	Kenyan author
136	Margaret Rockefeller Strong	1897	American activist
137	Margaret J. Winkler	1895	American film producer
138	Margaret Wente	1950	Canadian journalist
139	Margaret Archer	1943	British sociologist
140	Margaret of Cortona	1247	Italian penitent
141	Margaret Anne Cargill	1920	Philanthropist and heiress
142	Margaret McNamara	1915	Wife of American politician
143	Margaret of Mar, 31st Countess of Mar	1940	British peer
144	Margaret Pomeranz	1944	Australian film critic
145	Margaret Olley	1923	Australian painter
146	Margaret Hamburg	1955	American physician and medical/public health administrator
147	Margaret McMillan	1860	British activist
148	Margaret Oliphant	1828	British writer
149	Margaret Smith		Standup comic, actor, writer and producer from the United States
150	Margaret Stohl	1967	American author
151	Margaret Markov	1951	American actress
152	Margaret Booth	1898	American film editor
153	Margaret of France, Queen of England and Hungary	1158	Queen of England and Hungary
154	Margaret White
155	Margaret A. Ryan	1964	Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
156	Margaret Dunning	1910	Philanthropist
157	Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard	1843	American heiress
158	Margaret de Clare	1292	English noble
159	Margaret Anne Florence	1978	American actress
160	Margaret Gibson	1894	Actress
161	Margaret Rhea Seddon	1947	Surgeon and former NASA astronaut
162	Margaret Greville	1863	British socialite
163	Margaret McDonald	1815	British visionary
164	Margaret Berger	1985	Norwegian singer and songwriter
165	Margaret III, Countess of Flanders	1350	Countess suo jure of Flanders
166	Margaret Bryan	1468	English noble
167	Margaret Erskine	1513	Mistress of Scottish King
168	Margaret Brent	1601	American colonist
169	Margaret Tallichet	1914	American actress
170	Margaret Millar	1915	American-Canadian mystery and suspense writer
171	Margaret Moran	1955	British politician
172	Margaret Mazzantini	1961	Splendore
173	Margaret Bechstein Hays	1887	RMS Titanic survivor
174	Margaret Becker	1959	American Christian rock singer
175	Margaret Stewart, Dauphine of France	1424	Dauphine of France
176	Margaret Murray Washington	1865	American academic
177	Margaret Fell	1614	Founder of the Religious Society of Friends
178	Margaret Ritchie	1958	British politician
179	Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein	1882	Austrian philanthropist
180	Margaret Edson	1961	American playwright
181	Margaret Preece		Singer
182	Margaret Orr		American meteorologist
183	Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway	1261	Queen of Norway
184	Margaret Greenwood	1959	British politician
185	Margaret Wilson		Scottish Covenanter
186	Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Somerset	1385	Countess of Somerset, died 1439
187	Margaret Landon	1903	Writer, missionary
188	Margherita del Balzo	1394	Italian noble
189	Margaret Oakley Dayhoff	1925	American biochemist
190	Margaret Skinnider	1892	Irish activist
191	Margaret Burbidge	1919	Astronomer
192	Margaret Boden	1936	Researcher in the field of artificial intelligence
193	Margaret Howell	1946	British fashion designer
194	Margaret Waters	1835	English murderer
195	Margaret Karcher	1915	American businessman
196	Margaret Chin	1954	Hong Kong politician
197	Margaret Clap		English innkeeper
198	Margaret Curran	1958	British politician
199	Margaret Ewing	1945	British politician
200	Margaret Stock	1962	American immigration lawyer