Margarita

Margarita is a female first name, originally derived from Persian "Morvared" meaning Pearl and in Sanskrit मञ्जरी mañjarī meaning 'pearl' or 'cluster of blossoms. In Latin it came from the Greek word margaritari (μαργαριτάρι), meaning pearl, borrowed from the Persians. The flower "Daisy" is called Margarita in Spanish, Greek and other languages. It is also used in Albanian, Greek, Bulgarian and Russian. It is a variant of the Persian name Margaret. Persons with this name include:
Infanta Margarita, 2nd Duchess of Hernani (b. 1939)
Margaret of Austria (1584–1611)
Margarita "Peggy" Schuyler
Princess Margarita of Bourbon-Parma, Dutch princess
Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark, Greek princess
Margarita Teresa of Spain, Holy Roman Empress
Princess Margarita of Romania (b. 1949)
Margarita Cedeño de Fernández, Dominican politician and lawyer, current First Lady and Vice President Elect of the Dominican Republic
Margarita Aliger (1915–1992), Soviet poet and journalist
Margarita Armstrong-Jones (b. 2002), fourteenth in line for the British throne
Margarita Carmen Cansino, the birth name of American actress Rita Hayworth
Nitza Margarita Cintron, Chief of Space Medicine at NASA's Johnson Space Center
Margarita Gómez-Acebo y Cejuela, the consort of Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria
Margarita Henríquez, Panamese TV personality
Margarita Karapanou, Greek novelist
Margarita Volkovinskaya, the birth name of Uzbekistan actress Rita Volk
Margarita Levieva, Russian-American actress
Margarita López, politician in New York City, USA
Margarita Beatriz Luna, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Mexico
Margarita Miniati, Greek scholar and writer
Margarita Moran-Floirendo, Miss Universe 1973 from the Philippines
Margarita Mamun, Russian rhythmic gymnast
Margarita Michailidou, Greek taekwondo athlete
Margarita Mukasheva, Kazakhstani runner
Margarita Nazarova, several people
Margarita Plevritou, Greek water polo player
Margarita Ponomaryova (b. 1963), Russian hurdler
Margarita Pracatan, Brazilian singer
Margarita Rivière, Spanish journalist and writer
Margarita Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Spanish aristocrat
Margarita Starkevičiūtė, Lithuanian politician
Margarita Xirgu, Spanish stage actress
Margarita Zavala, former First Lady of Mexico
Fictional
Alexandra Margarita Russo, a.k.a. Alex Russo, a character from Wizards of Waverly Place, and her mother Theresa Magdalena Margarita Russo
Margarita Nikolaevna, one of the protagonists in the novel The Master and Margarita by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov
Margarete/ Gretchen in Faust from Goethe
Marguerite Gautier, protagonist in the 1848 novel and 1852 play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils. It was made a movie "Camille" (1936) by George Cukor.
Marge Simpson (mother) and Maggie Simpson (daughter) in the animated television series "The Simpsons".

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Cocktail made with tequila, 1963, from the fem. proper name, the Spanish form of Margaret. Earlier "a Spanish wine" (1920).

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Form of Margaret, derived from the Greek word margarites: pearl.

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Margarita Levieva	1980	American actress
2	Margarita Louis-Dreyfus	1962	Russian businessperson
3	Margarita Broich	1960	German actress and photographer
4	Margarita Moran-Floirendo	1953	Filipina model who was crowned 1973's Miss Universe
5	Margarita Mamun	1995	Russian rhythmic gymnast
6	Margarita Barrientos	1961	Argentinian activist
7	Margarita Debayle	1900
8	Margarita Rosa de Francisco	1965	Colombian actor and singer
9	Margarita Gralia	1953	Argentine-Mexican actress
10	Margarita Gasparyan	1994	Russian tennis player
11	Margarita Reyes	1986
12	Margarita Simonyan	1980	Russian-Armenian journalist
13	Margarita Zavala	1967	Mexican politician
14	Margarita Landi	1918	Spanish television presenter (1918-2004)
15	Lagaña	1979	Mexican actor and model
16	Margarita Luti	1500	Mistress and model of Raphael
17	Margarita Mathiopoulos	1956	German author
18	Margarita Muñoz	1987	Colombian actress
19	Margarita Cedeño de Fernández	1965	Vice-President of the Dominican Republic
20	Margarita Pracatan		Cuban musician
21	Margarita Geuer	1966
22	Margarita Sanz	1954	Mexican actress
23	Margarita Mainé	1960	Argentinian writer
24	Margarita Sierra	1936	Spanish singer-actor
25	Margarita Terekhova	1942	Soviet and Russian actress
26	Margarita Vargas	1960	Singer
27	Margarita Isabel	1941	Mexican actress
28	Margarita Maza	1826	First Lady of Mexico
29	Margarita Lozano	1931	Spanish actress
30	Margarita Stolbizer	1955	Argentine politician
31	Grisel Margarita	1989	Mexican actress
32	Margarita Villaquirá	1860
33	Margarita Fomina	1988	Russian curler
34	Margarita Breitkreiz	1980	German actress
35	Margarita Popova	1956	Bulgarian politician
36	Margarita Salas	1936	Spanish biochemist
37	Margarita Cordova	1939	American actress
38	Margarita Torres	1969	Spanish medievalist
39	Margarita Manso	1908	Spanish painter (1908-1960)
40	Margarita Sánchez Gutiérrez	1953
41	Margarita Drobiazko	1971	Lithuanian ice dancer
42	Margarita Laso	1963	Ecuadorian writer
43	Margarita Xhepa	1932	Albanian actress
44	Margarita Nazarova	1926	Soviet actress
45	Margarita Xirgu	1888	Spanish-Uruguayan actor
46	Margarita Bertheau	1913	Costa Rican painter
47	Queen Margarita of Bulgaria	1935	Consort to Tsar of Bulgaria
48	Margarita Aliger	1915	Famous Soviet poet, translator, and journalist
49	Margarita Neri		Mexican revolutionary commander
50	Margarita Cabello Blanco	1957
51	Margarita Palacios	1911	Argentinian singer
52	Margarita Engle	1951	American children's writer, columnist, poet
53	Margarita (Master and Margarita)
54	Margarita Fischer	1886	American actress
55	Margarita Belandria	1953
56	Margarita Nelken	1894	Spanish feminist and writer
57	Margarita Nolasco Santiago		American politician
58	Margarita Paz Paredes	1922	Mexican writer (1922-1980)
59	Margarita Madrigal	1912
60	Margarita Gritskova	1987	Singer
61	Margarita Carrillo Arronte
62	Margarita Pushkina	1952	Russian musician
63	Margarita Forés
64	Margarita Azurdia	1931	Guatemalan artist
65	Margarita Yelisseyeva	1992
66	Margarita Villalta de Sánchez	1950
67	Margarita Argúas	1902	Argentinian judge
68	Margarita Henríquez	1991	Female vocalist from Panama
69	Margarita Nikolaeva	1935	Olympic artistic gymnast
70	Margarita Cabrera		Mexican-American mixed-media artist
71	Margarida Comas i Camps	1892
72	Bob Margarita	1920	American football player and coach
73	Margarita Ponomaryova	1963	Russian sprinter
74	Margarita Aliychuk	1990	Gymnast
75	Margarita Nuez Farnos	1940
76	Margarita Karapanou	1946	Greek writer
77	Margarita López	2001	Argentinian actor and singer
78	Margarita Lascoiti	1949
79	Margarita Escarpa	1964	Classical guitarist
80	Margarita Koptilova	1991	Russian paralympic athlete
81	Margarita Bolaños Arquín
82	Margarita Musto	1955	Uruguayan writer
83	Margarita Ledo Andión	1951	Spanish writer
84	Margarita Tšernogorova	1933	Politician from Estonia
85	Margarita Prieto Yegros	1936	Paraguayan writer
86	Margarita López Portillo	1914	Mexican novelist
87	Margarita Bobba		Italian writer
88	Margarita García Robayo	1980	Colombian writer
89	Margarita Peralta	1994	Colombian model
90	Margarita Marlene González Fernández		Cuban politician
91	Margarita Prentice	1931	American politician
92	Margarita Woloschin	1882	German author
93	Margarita Calahorra	1930
94	Margarita Carrera	1929	Guatemalan writer
95	Margarita Arellanes Cervantes	1976	Mexican politician
96	Margarita Beatriz Luna Ramos	1956	Mexican jurist, president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation
97	Margarita Khemlin	1960	Russian writer
98	Margarita Sharapova	1962	Russian writer
99	Margarita Höhenrieder	1956	German university teacher
100	Margarita Tamargo-Sanchez	1915	Cuban scientist
101	Margarita Abella Caprile	1901	Argentine writer
102	Margarita Shirokova	1991	Footballer
103	Margarita Mkrtchyan	1981	Olympic taekwondo practitioner
104	Margarita Fullana	1972	Olympic cyclist
105	Margarita Suero	1982	Female volleyball player from the Dominican Republic
106	Margarita Robles de Mendoza	1896
107	Margarita Monet	1990
108	Margarita Ortega (actress)	1973	Colombian actress
109	Margarita Balliana		Italian writer
110	Margarita Jankauskaitė	1965
111	Margarita Kalmikova	1980	Olympic swimmer
112	Margarita Flores Sánchez	1961	Mexican Senator for Nayarit
113	Margarita Villaescusa Rojo	1964	Mexican politician
114	Margarita Nolasco Armas	1932	Mexican anthropologist
115	Margarita Hickey	1753	Spanish writer (1753-1793)
116	Salvatore Margarita	1990	Italian footballer
117	Margarita García Luna Ortega	1945	Mexican historian
118	Margarita Mercado Echegaray	1980	Puerot Rican lawyer
119	Margarita Stāraste-Bordevīka	1914	Latvian author
120	Margarita Matsko	1986	Kazakhstani middle distance runner
121	Margarita Mariscal de Gante	1954	Spanish judge and politician
122	Margarita Starkevičiūtė	1956	Lithuanaian politician
123	Margarita Alexandre	1923
124	Margarita Zimmermann	1942	Argentine opera singer
125	Margarita Gerasimova		Volleyball player
126	Margarita Morozova	1873	Russian noble and philanthropist
127	Margarita Pérez Pallares	1943	55º First Lady of Ecuador
128	Margarita Uria	1953	Spanish politician
129	Margarita Plevritou	1994
130	Margarita Chernomyrdina	1996	Soccer player from Russia
131	Margarita Lecuona	1910	Cuban woman composer
132	Margarita Michelena	1917	Mexican poet
133	Margarita Tschomakova	1988	Olympic fencer
134	Margarita Restrepo
135	Margarita Arellano	1972	American musician, singer and opera singer
136	Margarita Salicola	1680	Italian singer and opera singer
137	Margarita Mbywangi	1962	Paraguayan politician
138	Margarita Cruz Sipuachi		Mexican potter
139	Margarita Burke		Argentinian actor
140	Margarita Nesterova	1989	Russian swimmer
141	Margarita Cadenas		Venezuelan film director
142	Margarita Peña Muñoz	1937
143	Margaret Miniati	1821	Greek scholar and writer
144	Margarita Sucari	1962	Peruvian politician
145	Margarita Penón	1948	Costa Rican politician
146	Margarita Mora	1920	Mexican film actor (1920-1976)
147	Margarita Gallegos Soto	1962	Mexican politician
148	Margarita Maslennikova	1928	Soviet cross-country skier
149	Margarita Voiska	1963	Bulgarian chess player
150	Margarita Arenas Guzmán	1957	Mexican politician
151	Margarita Tacheva	1936	Bulgarian historian
152	Margarita Ortega Villa	1947	Mexican politician, anarchist
153	Margarita Robleda
154	Margarita Cota-Cárdenas	1941	Mexican-American, Chicana Author, Poet
155	Margarita Pin	1949	Spanish politician
156	Margarita Kornõševa
157	Margarita Marbler	1975	Austrian freestyle skier
158	Margarita Padín	1910	Argentinian actor
159	Margarita Hranova	1951
160	Margarita Paksa	1936
161	Margarita Corona	1911	Brazilian actress
162	Margarita Ostolaza		American politician
163	Margarita Lorenzo de Reizábal		Spanish conductor and composer
164	Margarita Percovich	1941	Uruguayan politician
165	Margarita Tapia Fonllem	1959	Mexican politician
166	Margarita Čiuplytė	1984
167	Margarita Vladimirovna Volodina	1938	Soviet actress
168	Margarita Pellegrin	1940	German painter
169	Margarita Lilova	1935	Austrian singer and opera singer
170	Margarita Tupitsyn	1955	Russian art historian and author
171	Margarita de Pedroso y Sturdza	1911
172	Margarita Armengol	1960	Olympic swimmer
173	Margarita Martirena	1966	Uruguayan sprinter
174	Margarita Gabassi		Italian painter
175	Margarita Urueta	1918	Mexican screenwriter and writer
176	Margarita Tarradell	1962
177	Margarita Linton	1925	Argentine actress
178	Margarita Galinovskaya	1968	Russian archer
179	Margarita Kozhina	1925	Russian linguist
180	Margaret of Montferrat	1264
181	Margarita Matulyan	1985	Sculptor from Armenia
182	Margarita Padilla	1957
183	Margarita Ferrá de Bartol	1935	Argentine politician
184	Margarita Shtarkelova	1951	Olympic medalist in basketball
185	Margarita Dabdoub Sikaffi	1964	Honduran politician
186	Margarita Agullona	1536
187	Margarita Perveņecka	1976	Playwright
188	Margarita de la Cerda	1293
189	Margarita Michailidou	1987
190	Margarita Checa	1950
191	Margarita Ramos	1966	Spanish female shot putter
192	Margarita Luna García	1921	Dominican composer and pianist
193	Margarita de Ochoa
194	Margarita Brender Rubira	1919	Romanian architect
195	Margarita Aizpuru
196	Margarita Miglau	1926
197	Margarita Saldaña Hernández	1964	Mexican politician
198	Margarita Isabel Cabrer González	1969	Spanish lawyer and politician
199	Margarita Maratovna Meklina	1972	Novelist
200	Ilario Margarita	1887	Italian anarcho-syndicalist (1887-1974)