Margo

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Margo: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Margo: Recorded since 1969, with a gap of 15 years, its highest recorded position is #209, and it stood at #718 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
42times a registrar ranked it
57years from first to last
#209highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Margo's record

Absent from every published list for 15 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2000–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2000	#3247
2001	#2783
2004	#3725
2005	#4798
2006	#3548
2007	#2627
2008	#5545
2009	#3936
2010	#5707
2011	#3185
2012	#4838
2013	#2887
2014	#3160
2015	#1168
2016	#994
2017	#648
2018	#553
2019	#623
2020	#537
2021	#427
2022	#433
2023	#379
2024	#392

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 13 of the 57 years from 1969 to 2025.

In 2024: #227 among girls in Northern Ireland, #315 among girls in Scotland, #392 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1969–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1969
First recorded at #393 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1969 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded2018–2024
Highest recorded position: #209 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2023 (recorded 2018–2024).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #718 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Margo appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 23 ranked years and 828 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1969.

Margo across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Margo's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#393 (1969)	#369 (1977)	#718 (2025)	13 of 57	52 (1969–2025)	7 (1977)
England and Wales · Girls	#3247 (2000)	#379 (2023)	#392 (2024)	23 of 25	828 (2000–2024)	110 (2023)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#434 (2018)	#209 (2023)	#227 (2024)	5 of 7	25 (2018–2024)	8 (2023)

Margo by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Margo in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	37	8 of 10	5
2010s	296	10 of 10	30
2020sbusiest	495	5 of 10	99

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 99 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2020 and 2021, when recorded births rose by 29, from 74 to 103.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Margo appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1969 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #209 in Northern Ireland in 2023.

Margo's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#392	110	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#379	110	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#433	98	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#427	103	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#537	74	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#623	63	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#553	75	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#648	64	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#994	36	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1168	29	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2887	8	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3185	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3936	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2627	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3548	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3725	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2783	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#227	7	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#209	8	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#350	4	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#424	3	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#434	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#718	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#628	5	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#414	5	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#529	3	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#467	4	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#533	3	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#522	3	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#369	7	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#497	3	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#449	4	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#393	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#315	11	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1969 and 2025, ranked in 33 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #209, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 110 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 15 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2000, and 55 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Marged · #2683, 22y
Margit · #95, 81y
Margot · #28, 53y
Margrete · #155, 73y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Nia · #209, 30y
Devin · #208, 33y
Bertie · #211, 30y
Sylvie · #211, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Eibhlin · #209, 59y
Moira · #209, 61y
Amal · #208, 62y
Dana · #210, 51y

Margo was ranked #209 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Margo and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Margo without appearing here.

Margo moved ahead of

Finley Compare
In 2014 they stood at #3160 and #2862 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1168 and #5730.
Tyler Compare
In 2014 they stood at #3160 and #3160 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1168 and #5730.
Lorraine Compare
In 2014 they stood at #3160 and #2464 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1168 and #4736.
Meabh Compare
In 2014 they stood at #3160 and #2314 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #1168 and #4103.

Moved ahead of Margo

Ada Compare
In 2019 they stood at #467 and #523 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2020 that had become #628 and #37.
Hanna Compare
In 2019 they stood at #467 and #523 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2020 that had become #628 and #145.
Emilie Compare
In 2019 they stood at #414 and #459 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2020 that had become #628 and #264.
Erin Compare
In 1977 they stood at #369 and #468 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1978 that had become #522 and #281.

Moved the opposite way to Margo

Amelia Compare
Between 1969 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Margo went from #393 to #718 while Amelia went from #322 to #12.
Annie Compare
Between 1969 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Margo went from #393 to #718 while Annie went from #206 to #33.
Aoife Compare
Between 1969 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Margo went from #393 to #718 while Aoife went from #136 to #34.
Clodagh Compare
Between 1969 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Margo went from #393 to #718 while Clodagh went from #116 to #47.

Moved the same way as Margo

Aisling Compare
Between 1969 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Margo went from #393 to #718 and Aisling from #94 to #180.
Alison Compare
Between 1969 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Margo went from #393 to #718 and Alison from #71 to #213.
Amanda Compare
Between 1969 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Margo went from #393 to #718 and Amanda from #58 to #608.
Andrea Compare
Between 1969 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Margo went from #393 to #718 and Andrea from #175 to #304.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1969 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #209 in Northern Ireland in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Margo

Margo at a glance

What stands out in Margo's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Margo across 3 official records

Margo by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Margo appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Margo

Margo and the names beside it

Margo moved ahead of

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Margo at a glance

What stands out in Margo's record

Margo across 3 official records

Margo by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Margo appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Margo

Margo and the names beside it

Margo moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Margo

Moved the opposite way to Margo

Moved the same way as Margo