Margot

English

• Pronounced MAR-goh /ˈmɑrɪː/

French

• Pronounced mar-GOH /maʁ.ˈɡo/

Margot was the #102 girl name in the U.S. in 2025, with 2,575 babies. It has been in the top 1,000 since 2013. It first appears in the records in 1894.

Margot ranks #40 in the District of Columbia (2025).

• Margot Fonteyn was an English ballerina who spent her entire career with the Royal Ballet and was named its prima ballerina assoluta by Queen Elizabeth II.
• Margot Elise Robbie is an Australian actress and producer known for blockbusters and indie films, a multiple Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA nominee, named to the Time 100 in 2017 and by Forbes the highest paid actress in 2023.
• Margot Pilz is an Austrian visual artist and pioneer of conceptual and digital art who was among the first in Austria to merge computers with photography, creating experimental and performative works rooted in the 1960s and 1970s avant garde that regained attention in the 2010s.
• Margot Frank, the elder sister of Anne Frank, received a Gestapo deportation order that drove the family into hiding, kept a diary that was never found, and died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen.
• Margot Lee Shetterly is an American nonfiction author best known for Hidden Figures, about black women mathematicians at NASA that became a hit film, and she previously worked in finance and media and cofounded Inside Mexico magazine.

Name colours: Girl Boy Unisex