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Margaret
St. Margaret of Antioch.jpg
Margaret the Virgin is one of many saints named Margaret.
Gender Female
Meaning The Bud of a Flower
Origin Greek
Related names Maggie, Madge, Marge, Meg, Megan, Meggie, Greta, and Peggy.
Popularity Popular names page

Margaret is a female first name, derived from the Greek word margarites (wikt:μαργαρίτης) or "pearl." It may have originally been derived from a Sanskrit word.[1]

Alternately, it might be of Persian origin, derived from the Persian language marvârid (مروارید), a pearl or daughter of light. Marg from Marq or Marka meaning "chicken" (مرغ), probably because pearls looked like small bird eggs. That famous student of the East, Sir Edwin Arnold, has an exquisite poem upon this gem, which tells how a drop of rain from a summer cloud:

"Into a sea-shell's opened lips the drop of rain was borne, Where many a day and night it lay, until at last it grew, A lovely pearl of lucent ray, faultless in form and hue."

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 name in the United States in 1903. Since this time, it has become less common, but is still the thirteenth most common name for women of all ages in the United States as of the 1990 census.

It has a large number of diminutive forms in many different languages, including Maggie, Madge, Marge, Meg, Megan, Rita, Daisy, Greta, Gretchen, Magee, Marg, Meggie and Peggy.

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Variant forms

Alternate forms of Margaret, including short forms and pet names, includes:

People called Margaret

This is a list of famous people with the first name Margaret:

Artists and authors

Educators and scholars

Political figures

Other

  • Margaret Brent: British colonial landowner, called the first American feminist

Other notable uses of this name

Royal figures

Belgium and the Netherlands (the Low Countries)

Denmark

England

France

German

Hungary

Italy

Norway

Portugal

Romania

Scotland

Sweden

Religious figures

Several Saints Margaret exist:

also:

Places

Shakespearean characters

Goethe's character

  • Margarete (or Gretchen) in Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy

Name Margaret in other languages

Nicknames of Margaret

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.behindthename.com/name/margaret Behind the Name

References


Wiktionary

Up to date as of January 14, 2010

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

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German

Alternative spellings

Proper noun

Margarete

  1. A female given name, cognate to Margaret.

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