Margarete
The German form of the name Poland knows as Małgorzata, with a Greek root meaning "pearl". Only 188 women here carry this spelling, so most Poles have never met one.
Margarete Pronunciation
Margarete is pronounced mahr-gah-RE-te (/margaˈrɛtɛ/).
What Margarete means
Where Margarete comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Margarete is the German form of a name whose root is Greek. That root is margarites, meaning pearl, and it passed through Latin margarita before it settled in German-speaking lands. Across those regions it spread as a name for saints and noblewomen, written Margarete or Margaretha in the old records. In Poland the same word took hold as Małgorzata, so the two names are branches from one Greek term for a small gem of the sea.
Day to day, the Polish forms grow warmer. Małgorzata shortens to Małgosia, and Małgosia to Gosia. The variant Margareta sits closest to Margarete, nearly a mirror of it.
Look down a school register and a Gosia turns up fast. Pearl was the meaning from the start, not a sense added later. Margarete, Małgorzata, Gosia: the shell changes, the pearl stays. In Polish, perła.
How many people are named Margarete
1 in 119914 women in Poland is named Margarete. 188 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2309 among female names.
Margarete as a middle name
Margarete is a first name for 188 women in Poland and a middle name for another 142, a 57/43 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 546th, between Marieta (143) and Nathalie (142).
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#544 Viviana145
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#545 Marieta143
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#546 Margarete142
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#547 Nathalie142
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#548 Wiera142