Margaret

Margaret
	Margaret the Virgin is one of many saints named Margaret
Gender	Female
Name day	23 May or 25 January
Origin
Word/name	Persian
Meaning	Pearl
Other names
Related names	Maggie, Mairead, Madge, Marguerite, Margarita, Margareta, Margarida, Margarete, Marge, Margo, Margot, Margie, Margit, Meg, Megan, Maisie, Rita, Gretchen, Gretel, Greta, Peggy

Margaret is a female first name, derived via French (Marguerite), Latin (Margarita), and Template:Lang-grc (margarítēs, a pearl)^[1] from the Old Persian word for pearl *margārīta- (compare Modern Persian morvārīd "pearl").

The Persian is cognate with the Sanskrit मञ्जरी mañjarī meaning "pearl" or "cluster of blossoms".^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Margaret has been an English name since the eleventh century, and remained popular throughout the Middle Ages. It became less popular between the sixteenth century and eighteenth century, but became more common again after this period, becoming the second-most popular female name in the United States in 1903. Since this time, it has become less common, but was still the ninth-most common name for women of all ages in the United States as of the 1990 census.

Margaret has many diminutive forms in many different languages, including: Maggie, Mairead, Madge, Margarete, Marge, Margie, Meg, Megan, Rita, Gretchen, and Peggy.^[6]

Aristocrats

England, Scotland, and United Kingdom

Saint Margaret of Scotland, (c. 1045–1093), Queen of Scots
Margaret of Anjou (1430–1482), wife of King Henry VI of England
Margaret Pole, born Princess Margaret of York & Clarence (1473–1541), Countess of Salisbury
Margaret Tudor (1489–1541), elder sister of Henry VIII of England and great-grandmother of James I of England
Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, (1443–1509), mother of King Henry VII and paternal grandmother of King Henry VIII of England
Margaret Douglas (1515–1578), daughter of Margaret Tudor
Princess Margaret of Connaught (1882–1920), elder daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930–2002), only sibling of Queen Elizabeth II and the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
Lady Margaret Fortescue (1923–2013), one of the UK's largest private landowners

France

Margaret of Provence (1221–1285)
Margaret of France, Duchess of Brabant (1254–1271)
Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549)
Margaret of Valois (1553–1615)

Hungary

Margaret of Hungary (1175–1223), wife of Isaac II Angelos Byzantine Emperor

Norway

Margaret of Scotland (Maid of Norway) (1282–1290)

Religious figures

Canonized

Saint Margaret the Virgin – the oldest and the most prominent; also known as Margaret of Antioch
Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (see Marie Alacoque)
Saint Margaret of Cortona
Saint Margaret of Scotland
Saint Margaret of Hungary (1242–1270)
Margaret Clitherow
Saint Margaret of England
Margaret the Barefooted
St Marguerite d'Youville of Canada

Beatified

Artists and authors

Margaret (singer) (born 1991), Polish singer and songwriter
Margaret Atwood (born 1939), Canadian novelist and poet
Margaret Avison (1918–2007), Canadian poet
Margaret Barnard (1898–1992), British painter and linocut maker
Margaret Barr (choreographer) (1904–1991), Australian dance-drama choreographer
Margaret Berger (born 1985), Norwegian singer-songwriter
Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971), American photojournalist
Margaret Hunt Brisbane (1858–1925), American poet
Margaret Busby, Ghanaian British publisher and writer
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623–1673), English writer, poet, and playwright.
Margaret Cho (born 1968), American comedian and actress
Margaret Clark (born 1943), Australian author
Margaret Clarkson, English artist
Margaret Cleaves, American physician, writer
Margaret Deland, American author
Margaret Drabble, English author
Margaret Forster, British author
Margaret Frame (1903–1985), Canadian painter
Margaret Fuller, American critic
Margaret Gale (born 1930), British operatic soprano
Margaret Harker (1920–2013), British photographer and historian of photography
Margaret Hillis, American conductor
MDH Keane (born 1927), American painter
Margaret Lane (1907–1994), British journalist, biographer and novelist
Margaret Larkin (1899–1967), American writer
Margaret Laurence (1926–1987), Canadian novelist
Margaret Wynne Lawless (1847–1926), American poet, author, educator, philanthropist
Margaret Leighton (1922–1976), English actress
Margaret Ogden (born 1952), American fantasy author best known by the pen name Robin Hobb
Margaret Lockwood (1916–1990), British actress
Margaret Manton Merrill, British-American journalist, writer, translator, elocutionist
Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949), American author
Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897), Scottish author
Margaret Eleanor Parker (1827–1896), American social activist, social reformer, travel writer
Margaret Peterson Haddix (born 1964), American writer
Margaret Randall (born 1936), US writer
Margaret Roper (1505–1544), English writer, translator
Margaret Rutherford (1892–1972), British actress of the stage and screen
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838–1912), American author, poet, editor
Margaret Scobie (born 1948), Australian indigenous Aboriginal painter
Maggie Smith (born 1934), British actress
Meg Stuart (born 1965), American choreographer, dancer, performing artist
Margaret Ashmore Sudduth (1859–1957), American educator, editor, temperance advocate
Margaret Frances Sullivan (1847–1903), Irish-American writer, journalist, editor
Margaret Travolta, American actress
Margaret Walker (1915–1998), American author
Margaret Whiting (1924–2011), American popular music and country music singer
Margaret E. Winslow (1836–1936), American activist, editor, author
Margaret Wise Brown (1910–1952), American author

Educators and scientists

Margaret Burbidge (born 1919), British astronomer
Margaret Byers (1832–1912), Irish educator, activist, social reformer, missionary, writer
Margaret Eleanor Cranson (1922-2020), American educator
Margaret Elisabeth Felix (born 1937, Indian educator
Margaret Frame, Scottish scientist
Margaret Gurney (1908–2002), American mathematician, statistician, and computer programmer
Margaret Angela Haley (1861–1939), American educator, promoted teachers unions
Margaret Hamilton, American computer scientist
Margaret Hutchinson, English educator, naturalist and author
Margaret Howe Lovatt, naturalist
Margaret Mead, American anthropologist
Margaret Warner Morley (1858–1923), American biologist, wrote children's books on biology
Margaret Floy Washburn (1871–1939), American psychologist
Margaret Wiecek, Polish-American operations researcher

Politics

Margaret Beckett (born 1943), British Member of Parliament for Derby South
Margaret (Ann) Coffey (born 1946), former British Member of Parliament for Stockport
Margaret Curran (born 1958), former British Member of Parliament for Glasgow East

Margaret Davidson (suffragist) (1879–1978), Scottish suffragist, teacher and WW1 nurse
Dame Margaret Davidson (1871–1964), British wife of colonial governor of New South Wales, Australia
Margaret A. Davidson (1950–2017), American lawyer and coastal science pioneer

Margaret Ewing (1945–2006), Scottish politician
Margaret Ferrier (born 1960), British Member of Parliament for Rutherglen and Hamilton West
Margaret Greenwood (born 1959), British Member of Parliament for Wirral West
Margaret Hodge (born 1944), British Member of Parliament for Barking
Margaret (Maggie) Jones, Baroness Jones of Whitchurch, British Labour Peer and trade union official
Margaret Lowenthal (1929–2003), American politician
Margaret Selina Martei, Ghanaian Member of Parliament for Asamankese (1965–1966)
Margaret Mitchell (Canadian politician) (1925–2017), New Democratic Party Member of Parliament for Vancouver East
Margaret Mitchell (Scottish politician) (born 1952), Scottish Conservative politician
Margaret Moran (born 1955), former Labour MP for Luton South who was convicted of the largest amount of fraud in the Parliamentary Expenses Scandal
Margaret Ritchie (born 1958), Northern Irish politician who has served in the Northern Ireland Assembly and both British Houses of Parliament
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who served from 1979 to 1990
Margeret (Maggie) Throup (born 1967), British Member of Parliament for Erewash

Other

Margaret Brennan (1831–1887), Canadian nun
Margaret Brent (c. 1601–c. 1671), British colonial landowner, called the first American feminist
Margaret Casely-Hayford (born 1959), British lawyer
Margaret Cochran Corbin (1751–1800), fought in the U.S. Revolutionary War and was given a pension by Congress
Margaret Court (born 1942), Australian tennis player
Margaret Elizabeth Douglas (1934–2008), English television producer and executive
Margaret Feeny (1917–2012), founder and first director of London's Africa Centre
Margaret Groos (born 1959), American long-distance runner
Margaret Haughery (1813–1882), philanthropist known as "the mother of the orphans"
Margaret Hoelzer (born 1983), American swimmer
Margaret Jeffery (1920–2004), British swimmer and Olympian
Margaret Jeffrey (1896–1977), Australian police officer
Margaret E. Kuhn (1905–1995), founder of the Gray Panthers
Margaret Martin (born 1979), American professional bodybuilder
Margaret Maughan (1928–2020), British Paralympic archer
Margaret McIver (1933–2020), Australian equestrian
Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage (1828–1918), American philanthropist who established the Russell Sage Foundation
Margaret Prior (1773–1842), American humanitarian, missionary, moral reform worker, writer
Margaret Sanger (1879–1966), founder of the birth control movement in the United States
Margaret Swain (1909–2002), English embroidery and textile historian
Maisie Williams (born 1997), English actress.

Fictional characters

Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing, by Shakespeare
Margaret "Peggy" Carter, a character featured in several storylines published by Marvel Comics
Margaret, a character in the Cartoon Network animated series Regular Show
Margaret Hooper, secretary to White House Chiefs of Staff Leo McGarry and CJ Cregg played by NiCole Robinson in the television series The West Wing
Margaret Houlihan, character in both the movie and television show M*A*S*H
Margaret "Peggy" Bundy, a character played by Katey Sagal in the 1987–97 Fox sitcom Married... with Children
Margaret Mildred "Kit" Kittredge, in the Kit Kittredge series of American Girl books and related toys
Margaret "Meg" March, character in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Mistress Margaret Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor, by Shakespeare
Margaret Evelyn "Maggie" Simpson, in the TV show The Simpsons
Margaret White, in the 1974 novel Carrie by Stephen King
Margaret Moonlight, a boss in the Suda 51 game No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle

References

^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Margaret" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 700.
^ "View Name: Margaret". Behind the Name. Retrieved 28 November 2012.
^ "Margaret". Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved 24 December 2012.
^ "Monier Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary". Universität zu Köln (University of Cologne). Retrieved 24 December 2012.
^ "مروارید". Retrieved 4 October 2017.
^ Cecil Adams (8 January 1993). "Why is Peggy the nickname for Margaret?". The Straight Dope. Retrieved 13 August 2012.

External links

"Margaret". Edgar’s Name Pages. 2001. Archived from the original on 26 October 2009.

[1] Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Margaret" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 700.

[2] "View Name: Margaret". Behind the Name. Retrieved 28 November 2012.

[3] "Margaret". Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved 24 December 2012.

[4] "Monier Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary". Universität zu Köln (University of Cologne). Retrieved 24 December 2012.

[5] "مروارید". Retrieved 4 October 2017.

[6] Cecil Adams (8 January 1993). "Why is Peggy the nickname for Margaret?". The Straight Dope. Retrieved 13 August 2012.

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