MEANING & HISTORY
What does Margarita mean?
Margarita belongs to the Margaret name family, ultimately associated with Greek margarites, pearl. Latin and Spanish preserve Margarita as a personal-name form, and the English dictionary records borrowing from those languages.
The clear pearl meaning should be distinguished from the Spanish common word margarita for a daisy and from modern products sharing the name. Those later or parallel uses do not erase the personal name’s history. Margaret, Marguerite and Margarita are useful language comparisons with their own exact spellings.
Pronunciation & syllables
Dictionary readings are kept by language. Select the reading that matches your intended pronunciation. Dots show the source’s written divisions; they are not a universal syllable count across languages.
Spanish
- /maɾɡaˈɾita/
- [maɾ.ɣ̞aˈɾi.t̪a]
Mar · ga · ri · ta4 source divisions
Dictionary reading & contributors ↗Wiktionary contributors / Kaikki / Wiktextract · CC BY-SA 4.0
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
EnglishEtymology & source
Borrowed from the Latin and Spanish Margarita (“Margaret”).
A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Wiktionary: Margarita (English) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
SpanishEtymology & source
a female given name meaning “Daisy”, equivalent to English Margaret
Wiktionary: Margarita (Spanish) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
People with the name Margarita
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Daisy Romualdez
Filipino actress
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Tingting Cojuangco
Filipino politician, philanthropist, and socialite
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
6
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
8
distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Tingting Cojuangco, Daisy Romualdez
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Margarita in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Margarita
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Margaret♀Pearl
- Margarette·Pearl, through Margaret
- Marianito·Documented affectionate form used with Mariano
- Mariquita·Documented María familiar-name tradition
- Marita♀A diminutive name in the Maria and Margaret families
- Angelita·Spanish diminutive of Angela, in the messenger-name family
- Bernardita♀Spanish feminine of Bernard: bear + brave or firm
- Carmelita♀Spanish diminutive of Carmel
What rhymes with Margarita?
Matches share a dictionary-supplied rhyme key in the stated language. Check the recorded reading; another language or accent can change the rhyme.
Recorded combinations with Margarita
1 source-reported compound forms include this name as a component. Each part keeps its own history.
Names in this collection
Explore combinations →Explore Margarita further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q6760124 — Margarita (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Tingting Cojuangco (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q6760124 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wikidata — Daisy Romualdez (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q6760124 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Margarita (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary contributors — Margarita (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources — Margaret (opens in a new tab)
Greek margarites pearl and historical name-family evidence.