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How popular is the name Margot?

Births per year, rank history and how many Margots are alive today.

Margot (female) is currently the 28th most popular girls' name in England and Wales, with 1,243 babies given the name in 2024. It has risen strongly over the past decade. At least 7,100 babies have been named Margot in England and Wales since 1996. Margot is one spelling of a name also recorded as Margo; the combined figures below cover every spelling. Common short forms of Margot include Maja, Peggy and Meg.

Across all spellings of the name, the Margot you are most likely to meet is around 3 years old. Half of all Margots born in England and Wales are between 3 and 8, and there are at least 7,900 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 2.5% chance that at least one of them will be called Margot.

How many babies are named Margot each year?

Includes all spellings: Margot, Margo. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Margot spelling rank?

Where does the Margo spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.