Margrette

History & Origin

Margrette is a respelled Margaret, the great classic from the Greek margarites, 'pearl', long a saint's name and royal name across Europe. American parents freely varied Margaret's spelling, and Margrette — with its clipped middle and -ette flourish — is one of the rarer results.

It was always a small variant — a few dozen girls a year at most around its faint nineteen-twenties peak — overshadowed by Margaret and Margret. It reads as a quaint vintage respelling and has not revived, though Margaret itself cycles in and out of favor.