Entry № 6467 · Italian origin

Margherita Margherita — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mar-geh-REE-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"Pearl, daisy"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Italian)

A name that means "pearl, daisy".

Margherita is widely used in Italy.

Pearl, daisy — a Italian name.

The name in its native script.

Margherita
Transliteration
Margherita
Pronunciation
/ ˌmɑːr.ɡəˈriː.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Margherita stands.

Margherita does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Margheritas before her.

Real people
Queen Margherita
Queen of Italy, namesake of the pizza.
1851 – 1926
In fiction
Margherita
Heroine of Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita.
1967 novel

Names connected to Margherita.

The number behind Margherita.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Margherita reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.