Entry № 6474 · French origin

Marguerite Marguerite — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mar-guh-REET /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Pearl, daisy"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "pearl, daisy".

Marguerite is the French form of Margaret — from the Greek margaritēs, meaning "pearl." The marguerite daisy is named for the saint. Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) wrote The Lover; Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987) was the first woman elected to the Académie française.

Marguerite peaked at #176 in the U.S. in 1898 and is rising again in modern naming.

Pearl. The French Margaret.

The name in its native script.

Marguerite
Transliteration
Marguerite
Pronunciation
/ ˌmɑːr.ɡəˈriːt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Marguerite stands.

Marguerite 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.

Marguerites before her.

Real people
Marguerite Duras
French novelist of The Lover.
1914 – 1996
Marguerite Yourcenar
First woman in the Académie française.
1903 – 1987
In fiction
Marguerite
Heroine of Goethe's Faust.
1808 work

Names connected to Marguerite.

The number behind Marguerite.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Marguerite reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.