Margaret
80
Babies in 2024
-4%
10-year change
2020
Peak · 124
-1%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Margaret
Margaret appears in the official UK girls' name list for 2024, ranked #493 with 80 girls registered in England & Wales.
Margaret reached its peak in 2020, when 124 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #357 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 80 represents 65% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 2,453 girls have been officially registered with the name Margaret in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,091 girls were registered with the name, starting from 83 in 2014 and ending at 80 in 2024.