Margaretha
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries · latest register: Statistik Austria, 2024
/mˌarɡarˈɛtha/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Margaretha is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country: 113,549 people, counted by the Meertens NVB, which ranks it 14th. In German, recorded as a female given name of rare usage, variant of Margareta.
- NLNetherlands1 in 152(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 362
- FIFinland1 in 2.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- 1 in 152 (inferred from the name graph)
113,549 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Margaretha
- Indonesian:/mˌarɡarˈɛtha/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Swedish:/marɡareːta/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Dutch:/mɑrɣaːrɛthɑ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
How Margaretha is read
(measured from records)Margaretha is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Margaretha in English.
- Indonesian21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Margaretha in Indonesian.
- German17%
a female given name of rare usage, variant of Margareta
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swedish11%
a female given name, a less common spelling of Margareta
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Dutch8.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Margaretha in Dutch.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Margaretha, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Margaretha counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #628 | 113,549 | 1 in 152 | 111K | Margaretha | 71 |
| SE Sweden | — | 28,159 | 1 in 362 | 28K | Margaretha | 44 |
| ZA South Africa | #993 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Margaretha | 38 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 1 | Margaretha | 88 |
| FI Finland | — | 2,113 | 1 in 2.6K | 3.5K | — | 5 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 118 | Margaretha | 39 |
113,549 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the de-leipzig-vornamen register; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Princess Margaretha of Swedenb. 1899SESwedish princess (1899–1977)
- Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Amblerb. 1934SESwedish princess; eldest sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
- Huub Stevensb. 1953NLnot in their usual nameDutch association football player and manager
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)46 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Margaretha a male or female name?
- Margaretha is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Netherlands (Meertens NVB), Finland (DVV), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Norway (SSB), among others.
- What does the name Margaretha mean?
- In German, a female given name of rare usage, variant of Margareta
- What are other forms of the name Margaretha?
- In the etymology graph, Margaret, Rita and Margarita are forms of the same name in other languages; Grete, Greet and Griet are recorded short or pet forms.
- How do you pronounce Margaretha?
- It depends on the language: in Indonesian /mˌarɡarˈɛtha/; in Swedish /marɡareːta/; in Dutch /mɑrɣaːrɛthɑ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people named Margaretha?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 114 thousand people named Margaretha, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled margaretha. After it come Sweden, South Africa, Germany and Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Margaretha most common?
- Margaretha is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 152 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Margaretha?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 113,549 people named Margaretha, about 1 in 152 residents.
- How common is Margaretha compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Margaretha is the 628th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Margaretha?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/margarethaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Margaretha” — ranked 14th in the Netherlands (Meertens NVB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.