Entry № 6464 · Spanish origin

Margarita Margarita — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mar-gah-REE-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Pearl (the classic cocktail + Saint Margarita)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "pearl (the classic cocktail + saint margarita)".

Margarita is the Spanish form of Margaret — from the Greek margarites ("pearl") — and also the Spanish-Mexican word for daisy. Margarita Carmen Cansino — Rita Hayworth's birth name. Saint Margaret of Cortona is venerated as Santa Margarita.

Pearl. The Margarita is the most-ordered cocktail in the US — 1 billion served annually.

The name in its native script.

Margarita
Transliteration
Margarita
Pronunciation
/ ˌmɑːr.ɡəˈriː.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Margarita stands.

Margarita 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.

Margaritas before her.

Real people
Margarita Mamun
Russian Olympic gymnast.
born 1995
Margarita Levieva
Russian-American actress.
born 1980
Margarita Pracatan
Cuban-American cabaret singer.
1931 – 2020
In fiction
The Margarita cocktail
Created Tijuana 1938.
1938

Names connected to Margarita.

The number behind Margarita.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Margarita reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.