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Margaret

Margaret the Virgin is one of many saints named Margaret
Pronunciation	English:
Gender	Female
Name day	23 May or 25 January
Origin
Language(s)	Greek
Meaning	Pearl
Other names
Related names	Maggie, Máiréad, Madge, Marguerite, Margarita, Margareta, Margarida, Margarete, Marge, Margherita, Margo, Margot, Margie, Daisy, Margit, Meg, Megan, Maisie, Rita, Gretchen, Gretel, Greta, Peggy

Margaret is a feminine given name, derived via French (Marguerite) and Latin (Margarita) from Ancient Greek: μαργαρίτης (margarítēs) meaning «pearl».^[1] The Greek is borrowed from Persian.^[2][3]

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 female 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 many diminutive forms in many different languages, including Maggie, Madge, Daisy, Margarete, Marge, Margo, Margie, Marjorie, Meg, Megan, Rita, Greta, Gretchen, and Peggy.^[4]

Name variants[edit]

Full name[edit]

• Mairead (Scottish)
• Maighread (Scottish)
• Máiréad (Irish)
• Mairéad (Irish)
• Margaretha (Dutch), (German), (Swedish)
• Marjorie (English)

Diminutives[edit]

• Mae (English)
• Maggie (English)
• Maisie (Scottish)

First half[edit]

• Margot (French)
• Megan (Welsh)

Second half[edit]

• Greta (English), (German), (Italian), (Lithuanian), (Polish), (Swedish),
• Gretchen (English), (German),
• Rita (English), (Estonian), (Hungarian), (Estonian)

Nobility[edit]

Austria[edit]

• Margaret, Countess of Tyrol (1318–1369)

Belgium and the Netherlands[edit]

• Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy (1480–1530), Princess of Asturias and Duchess of Savoy by her two marriages
• Margaret of Parma (1522–1586), illegitimate daughter of Charles V and Johanna Maria van der Gheynst
• Margaret of York (1446–1503), Duchess of Burgundy and wife of Charles the Bold, Regent of France

Denmark[edit]

• Margaret I of Denmark (1353–1412)
• Margrethe II of Denmark (born 1940)

England and Scotland[edit]

• Lady Margaret Fortescue (1923–2013), one of the UK’s largest private landowners
• Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, (1443–1509), mother of Henry VII of England and paternal grandmother of King Henry VIII of England
• Margaret Douglas (1515–1578), daughter of Margaret Tudor
• Margaret of Anjou (1430–1482), wife of King Henry VI of England
• Margaret Pole, born Princess Margaret of York and Clarence (1473–1541), Countess of Salisbury
• Margaret Tudor (1489–1541), elder sister of Henry VIII of England and great-grandmother of James I of England
• Princess Margaret of Connaught (1882–1920), elder daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught
• Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930–2002), only sibling of Queen Elizabeth II and the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
• Saint Margaret of Scotland, (c. 1045–1093), Queen of Scots

France[edit]

• Margaret of France, Duchess of Brabant (1254–1271)
• Margaret of Provence (1221–1285)
• Margaret of Valois (1553–1615)
• Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549)

Hungary[edit]

• Margaret of Hungary (1175–1223), wife of Isaac II Angelos Byzantine Emperor

Norway[edit]

• Margaret of Scotland (Maid of Norway) (1282–1290)

Romania[edit]

• Margareta of Romania (born 1949)

Religion[edit]

• Margaret Brennan (1831–1887), Canadian nun
• Margaret B. Denning (1856-1935), American missionary and temperance worker
• Margaret Sampson (1906–1988), English nun

Canonised[edit]

• Margaret Clitherow (1556–1586)
• Margaret the Barefooted (1325–1395)
• Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647–1690)
• Saint Margaret of Castello (1287–1320)
• Saint Margaret of Cortona (1247–1297)
• Saint Margaret of England (died 1192)
• Saint Margaret of Hungary (1242–1270)
• Saint Margaret of Scotland (1045–1093)
• Saint Margaret the Virgin – the oldest and most prominent St. Margaret; also known as Margaret of Antioch (c. 209–304 AD)

Beatified[edit]

• Margaret Pole (1473–1541)
• Margaret Ward (1550–1588)

[edit]

• Maggie Smith (born 1934), British actress
• Maisie Williams (born 1997), English actress.
• Margaret Uyauperq Aniksak (1907–1993), Inuit sculptor
• Margaret Ashmore Sudduth (1859–1957), American educator, editor, temperance advocate
• Margaret Atwood (born 1939), Canadian novelist and poet
• Margaret Avison (1918–2007), Canadian poet
• Margaret Barnard (1898–1992), British painter and linocut maker
• Margaret Barr (choreographer) (1904–1991), Australian dance-drama choreographer
• Margaret Berger (born 1985), Norwegian singer-songwriter
• Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971), American photojournalist
• Margaret Busby, Ghanaian British publisher and writer
• Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623–1673), English writer, poet, and playwright.
• Margaret Cho (born 1968), American comedian and actress
• Margaret Clark (born 1943), Australian author
• Margaret Clarkson, English artist
• Margaret Cleaves (1848–1917), American physician, writer
• Margaret Wootten Collier (1869-1947), American author
• Margaret Deland (1857–1945), American author
• Margaret Drabble, English author
• Margaret E. Winslow (1836–1936), American activist, editor, author
• Margaret Eleanor Parker (1827–1896), American social activist, social reformer, travel writer
• Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838–1912), American author, poet, editor
• Margaret Forster, British author
• Margaret Frame (1903–1985), Canadian painter
• Margaret Frances Sullivan (1847–1903), Irish-American writer, journalist, editor
• Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), American critic
• Margaret Gale (born 1930), British operatic soprano
• Margaret Harker (1920–2013), British photographer and historian of photography
• Margaret Hillis, American conductor
• Margaret Hunt Brisbane (1858–1925), American poet
• Margaret Lane (1907–1994), British journalist, biographer and novelist
• Margaret Larkin (1899–1967), American writer
• Margaret Laurence (1926–1987), Canadian novelist
• Margaret Leighton (1922–1976), English actress
• Margaret Lockwood (1916–1990), British actress
• Margaret Manton Merrill, British-American journalist, writer, translator, elocutionist
• Margaret Mazzantini (born 1961), Italian-Irish author
• Margaret McDonald Bottome (1827-1906), American reformer, organizational founder, author
• Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949), American author
• Margaret Ogden (born 1952), American fantasy author best known by the pen name Robin Hobb
• Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897), Scottish author
• Margaret Bloodgood Peeke (1838-1908), American traveler, lecturer, author
• Margaret Peterson Haddix (born 1964), American writer
• Margaret Randall (born 1936), US writer
• Margaret Roper (1505–1544), English writer, translator
• Margaret Rutherford (1892–1972), British actress of the stage and screen
• Margaret Scobie (born 1948), Australian indigenous Aboriginal painter
• Margaret (singer) (born 1991), Polish singer and songwriter
• Margaret Tracey (born 1967), American ballet dancer
• Margaret Travolta, American actress
• Margaret Walker (1915–1998), American author
• Margaret Whiting (1924–2011), American popular music and country music singer
• Margaret Wise Brown (1910–1952), American author
• Margaret Wynne Lawless (1847–1926), American poet, author, educator, philanthropist
• Margaret Keane (1927–2022), American painter
• Meg Stuart (born 1965), American choreographer, dancer, performing artist

Educators and scientists[edit]

• Margaret Haley (1861–1939), American educator, promoted teacher’s unions
• Margaret Becklake (1922–2018), Canadian academic and epidemiologist
• Margaret Burbidge (1919–2020), British astronomer
• Margaret Byers (1832–1912), Irish educator, activist, social reformer, missionary, writer
• Margaret Mordecai Jones Cruikshank (1878–1955), American educator and college president
• Margaret Elisabeth Felix (born 1937), Indian educator
• Margaret Floy Washburn (1871–1939), American psychologist
• Margaret Frame, Scottish scientist, professor of molecular cell biology
• Margaret Gurney (1908–2002), American mathematician, statistician, and computer programmer
• Margaret Hamilton, American computer scientist
• Margaret Howe Lovatt, naturalist
• Margaret Hutchinson, English educator, naturalist and author
• Margaret Lin Xavier (1898–1932), Thai physician
• Margaret Mead, American anthropologist
• Margaret Helen Read (1889–1991), British social anthropologist and academic
• Margaret Warner Morley (1858–1923), American biologist, wrote children’s books on biology
• Margaret Wiecek, Polish-American operations researcher

Politics[edit]

• Margaret A. Davidson (1950–2017), American lawyer and coastal science pioneer
• Margaret (Ann) Coffey (born 1946), former British Member of Parliament for Stockport
• Margaret Beckett (born 1943), British Member of Parliament for Derby South
• Margaret Curran (born 1958), former British Member of Parliament for Glasgow East
• Margaret Davidson (1871–1964), British wife of colonial governor of New South Wales, Australia
• Margaret Davidson (suffragist) (1879–1978), Scottish suffragist, teacher and WW1 nurse
• Margaret Ewing (1945–2006), Scottish politician
• Margaret Ferrier (born 1960), British Member of Parliament for Rutherglen and Hamilton West
• Margaret Greenwood (born 1959), British Member of Parliament for Wirral West
• Margarett (Maggie) Hassan (born 1958), United States Senator for New Hampshire
• Margaret Hodge (born 1944), British Member of Parliament for Barking
• Margaret Hoover (born 1977), American political consultant and commentator, great-granddaughter of the former president
• Margaret Gardner Hoey (1875–1942), American political hostess and First Lady of North Carolina
• Margaret (Maggie) Jones, Baroness Jones of Whitchurch, British Labour Peer and trade union official
• Margaret Mitchell (Canadian politician) (1925–2017), New Democratic Party Member of Parliament for Vancouver East
• Margaret Mitchell (Scottish politician) (born 1952), Scottish Conservative politician
• Margaret Moran (born 1955), former Labour MP for Luton South who was convicted of the largest amount of fraud in the United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal
• Margaret Ritchie (born 1958), politician who served in the Northern Ireland Assembly and both British Houses of Parliament
• Margaret Rose Sanford (1918–2006), First Lady of North Carolina
• Margaret Selina Martei, Ghanaian Member of Parliament for Asamankese (1965–1966)
• Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who served from 1979 to 1990
• Margeret (Maggie) Throup (born 1967), British Member of Parliament for Erewash

Sports[edit]

• Margaret Boyd (1913–1993), English lacrosse player and schoolteacher
• Margaret Court (born 1942), Australian tennis player
• Margaret Groos (born 1959), American long-distance runner
• Margaret Hoelzer (born 1983), American swimmer
• Margaret Jeffery (1920–2004), British swimmer and Olympian
• Margaret Martin (born 1979), American professional bodybuilder
• Margaret Maughan (1928–2020), British Paralympic archer
• Margaret McIver (1933–2020), Australian equestrian
• Margaret Purce (born 1995) American soccer player

Other[edit]

• Margaret Barclay (accused witch), died 1618 as a result of witch trials held in Irvine, Ayrshire
• Margaret Catherine Blaikie (1823-1915), Scottish temperance reformer
• Margaret Brent (c. 1601–1671), English immigrant colonial landowner
• Margaret Casely-Hayford (born 1959), British lawyer
• Margaret Cochran Corbin (1751–1800), fought in the U.S. Revolutionary War and was given a pension by Congress
• Margaret Douie Dougal (1858-1938), British chemical publication indexer
• Margaret Dye Ellis (1845-1925), American social reformer
• Margaret E. Kuhn (1905–1995), founder of the Gray Panthers organisation
• Margaret Elizabeth Douglas (1934–2008), English television producer and executive
• Margaret Feeny (1917–2012), founder and first director of London’s Africa Centre
• Margaret Hampshire (1918–2004), British educator and civil servant
• Margaret Haughery (1813–1882), philanthropist known as «the mother of the orphans»
• Margaret Jeffrey (1896–1977), Australian police officer
• Margaret Bischell McFadden, American philanthropist and social worker
• Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage (1828–1918), American philanthropist who established the Russell Sage Foundation
• Margaret Prior (1773–1842), American humanitarian, missionary, moral reform worker, writer
• Margaret Sanger (1879–1966), founder of the birth control movement in the United States
• Margaret Swain (1909–2002), English embroidery and textile historian

Fictional characters[edit]

• Margaret Evelyn «Maggie» Simpson, in the TV show The Simpsons
• Margaret Fish, a chiropodist and a character in Bob and Margaret
• Margaret Hale, heroine in Elizabeth Gaskell’s 1855 novel North and South
• Margaret Hooper, secretary to White House Chiefs of Staff Leo McGarry and CJ Cregg played by NiCole Robinson in the TV series The West Wing
• Margaret Houlihan, character in both the movie and television show M*A*S*H
• Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing, by Shakespeare
• Margaret «Meg» March, character in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Margaret Mildred «Kit» Kittredge, in the Kit Kittredge series of American Girl books and related toys
• Margaret Moonlight, a boss in the Suda 51 game No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
• Margaret «Peggy» Bundy, a character played by Katey Sagal in the 1987–97 Fox sitcom Married… with Children
• Margaret «Peggy» Carter, a character featured in several storylines published by Marvel Comics
• Margaret White, in the 1974 novel Carrie by Stephen King
• Margaret, a character in the Cartoon Network animated series Regular Show
• Mistress Margaret Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor, by Shakespeare
• Margaret SquarePants, SpongeBob’s mother and Harold’s wife in SpongeBob SquarePants
• Margaret «Maggie» Horton, a character on the soap opera Days of Our Lives

See also[edit]

• Margaret (disambiguation)

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• «Margaret». Edgar’s Name Pages. 2001. Archived from the original on 21 October 2009.

Last Update: Jan 03, 2023

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Margaret is a female first name, derived via French (Marguerite) and Latin (Margarita) from Ancient Greek: μαργαρίτης (margarítēs) meaning «pearl». … Margaret has been an English name since the eleventh century, and remained popular throughout the Middle Ages.

What does Margaret mean in the Bible?

Margaret name meanings is Jewel. People search this name as Margaret in the bible. Other similar sounding names can be Margarita, Margareta.

What does the name Margaret mean for a girl?

The name Margaret is of German origin and means «pearl.» It is derived from the Latin Margarita, which was from the Greek word margarites, meaning «pearl».

What is a Margaret slang?

Pearl — The literal meaning of Margaret is “pearl,” which makes this a pretty nickname to use. Peg — British slang morphed Meg into Peg, a rhyming nickname that can be used. … Rita — Shortened nickname for the name Margarita, the Latin version of Margaret.

Does Margaret mean Daisy?

The flower name comes from the Old English word dægeseage, meaning «day’s eye». … Daisy is also a nickname for Margaret, used because Marguerite, the French version of that name, is also a French name for the oxeye daisy.

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From the name of a legendary third century saint, from Middle English Margaret, from Old French Margaret (French Marguerite), from Latin Margarita, from Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs, “pearl”), ultimately from an Indo-Iranian source.

The same source, through folk etymology, has produced Old English meregrot (“pearl”, literally “stone or pebble of the sea”), related to Old Saxon merigrita, merigriota (“pearl”), Old High German merigrioz, equivalent to mer- +‎ groat.

Pronunciation[edit]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːɡɹɪt/, /ˈmɑːɡəɹɪt/, /-ət/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹɡɹɪt/, /ˈmɑɹɡəɹɪt/, /-ət/

Proper noun[edit]

Margaret (countable and uncountable, plural Margarets)

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.

   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:

     Margaret shall now be queen, and rule the king;
     But I will rule both her, the king, and realm.

   • 1830 Mary Russell Mitford: Our Village: Cottage Names:

     Margaret, Marguerite — the pearl! the daisy! Oh name of romance and of minstrelsy, which brings the days of chivalry to mind, and the worship of flowers and ladies fair!

   • 1868 Bentley’s Miscellany, London. p.417:

     Amongst us English, the name is a greater favourite than with any other nation: but we have played upon it, and abused it oftener too. In no language does Margaret sound sweeter or homelier than in ours: not so Mag, Maggie, Meg, Madge, Moggie, Peg, Peggy, and abominable Piggy, of which abridgements only the two first are defensible.

   • 2012, Louise Erdrich, The Round House, Corsair, published 2013, →ISBN, page 292:

     The girls from our year were mainly named some version of Shawn. There was Shawna, Dawna, Shawnee, Dawnali, Shalana, and just plain Dawn and Shawn. There was also a girl named Margaret, named after her grandmother, who worked at the post office. I ended up talking with Margaret.

2. A river in southwestern Western Australia, presumed named for a cousin of John Garrett Bussell, founder of Busselton.
3. A river in Kimberley, Western Australia, named for its European discoverer’s sister-in-law.
4. (astronomy) A moon of Uranus, named for a character in Much Ado About Nothing. [Discovered 2003]
   • 2009, Richard Schmude, Jr., Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto and How to Observe Them, page 58,

     Astronomers discovered nine small moons lying outside the orbit of Oberon (Francisco, Caliban, Stephano, Trinculo, Sycorax, Margaret, Prospero, Setebos, and Ferdinand) between 1997 and 2003.

   • 2012, Peter Bond, Exploring the Solar System, page 297,

     The odd one out is Margaret, which travels in a «normal» prograde direction, though it has the most eccentric orbit of all the Uranian satellites.

   • 2013, David A. J. Seargent, Weird Worlds: Bizarre Bodies of the Solar System and Beyond, page 225,

     […] moons known to be moving in a prograde or direct orbit is Margaret, orbiting Uranus at an average distance of nearly nine million miles (14,845,000 km) in an orbit that currently exceeds all other Solar System moons in terms of eccentricity (0.7979). […] Margaret takes about 4.6 Earth years to complete a single orbit of the planet.

Derived terms[edit]

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Translations[edit]

See also[edit]

• Daisy
• Pearl
• marguerite
• moggy

Anagrams[edit]

• teragram

Cebuano[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English Margaret, from the name of a legendary third century saint, borrowed from Old French Margaret, from Latin Margarita, from Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs, “pearl”).

Proper noun[edit]

Margaret

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek
2. (astronomy) a moon of Uranus

Estonian[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Margaret

1. a female given name of modern usage. Borrowed from English or shortened from Margareeta

Norwegian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• Margareth

Proper noun[edit]

Margaret

1. a female given name borrowed from English, most used in the mid-twentieth century