Margalit
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- mar-gah-LEET
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Margalit is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “pearl”. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Margalit mean?
Hebrew: Hebrew word, borrowed from Greek margarites
“pearl”
The Modern Hebrew word for pearl, used as the Israeli equivalent of Margaret; both go back to Greek margarites.
Is Margalit a girl's or a boy's name?
Margalit is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Margalit in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Margalit, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 12 girls. It first appears in the records in 1985.
2025 had fewer girls named Margalit than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Margalit in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Margalit in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,438 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,536 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,240 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,483 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,356 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,792 |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,304 |
Names like Margalit
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Marigold, Adhara, Elliott, Maryam, Navi, Avani, Briella, Arya, Madisson, Armani, Ivanna, Madilyn
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Margalit: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/margalit, updated 20 October 2026.