Margot: meaning and UK use

What does Margot mean?

Margot developed as a French short form of Marguerite. Margaux is a recorded variant; pronunciation differs between French and German use.

Language or name family covered

French

Meaning or derivation

A short form of Marguerite

Our browsing group

girl; vintage, international

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Sources for this entry — reviewed 2026-10-07:

• Behind the Name — Margot

Pronunciation and related forms

/maʁ.ɡo/ (French IPA)

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Related forms recorded in the reference: Marguerite, Margaux. These may be full forms, diminutives or forms in another language; they are not necessarily pronounced alike or counted together in statistics.

How popular is Margot?

In 2025, 1,230 baby girls in England and Wales were registered as Margot, making it the 30th most popular girls’ name. That is down 2 places on 2024, when it ranked 28th. Ten years earlier, in 2015, it ranked 273rd, so it has climbed 243 places in a decade. Its best year in the ONS series was 2024, at 28th. These figures cover England and Wales, not the whole UK.

2025 rank (girls)

30th

2025 registrations

1,230

Best rank in this series

28th (2024)

Every year from 1996 to 2025

Margot: rank and number of baby girls by year (ONS)

Year	Rank	Babies
2025	30	1,230
2024	28	1,243
2023	44	1,025
2022	59	810
2021	57	892
2020	80	652
2019	94	575
2018	99	534
2017	156	353
2016	186	293
2015	273	178
2014	415	104
2013	725	55
2012	624	67
2011	776	48
2010	840	42
2009	879	38
2008	1176	25
2007	1160	24
2006	1119	24
2005	931	29
2004	1952	10
2003	1224	18
2002	1442	13
2001	1170	17
2000	2416	6
1999	1393	13
1998	1259	15
1997	2738	5
1996	1914	8

The sum of published counts in this 1996–2025 girls series is 8,346. This is a lower bound where years are suppressed, not the number of living people with the name. A best rank is the best position within this series; it does not establish an all-time record.

Sources: ONS release, 2025; girls' dataset; boys' dataset. Our 20 top-ten positions were checked against Table 1 in the 2025 workbooks. The history chart and spelling comparisons come from the separate ONS 1996–2025 workbook, checked 7 October 2026. Spelling variants are separate entries. Scotland and Northern Ireland have separate statistics.

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Names to compare with Margot

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