Margaryta
From the Greek for "pearl", it's the Ukrainian form of the name that gives Poland its Małgorzata. Rare here: only around 600 women carry it, though a handful of newborn girls each year keep it in active use.
Margaryta Pronunciation
Margaryta is pronounced mahr-gah-RIH-tah (/margaˈrɨta/).
What Margaryta means
Where Margaryta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Margaryta comes from the Greek margaritēs, meaning pearl. The word traveled from Greek into Latin and then across Europe, which is why the Polish variant Małgorzata sits so close to it. In Ukrainian the name kept its rounder shape, Margaryta, and Ukrainian families now living in Poland often carry it.
A pearl forms slowly inside a shell, layer over layer, and the name has held onto that image for a long time. The short meaning stayed plain and fixed. Perła, a pearl.
On a school class register the name reads without fuss, four syllables a teacher can call at once. Its name-day sits in the calendar for Saint Margaret, so a girl named Margaryta shares her imieniny with every Małgorzata near her. One signs the list in a Ukrainian hand, the other in Polish. The Greek root under both is the same. Both mean pearl.
How many people are named Margaryta
1 in 36302 women in Poland is named Margaryta. 621 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1195 among female names.
Margaryta's popularity over time
4 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1100 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024.
Where Margaryta is most popular
Margaryta is most popular in Masovian, 266% above the national average (6 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+175%) and Silesian (+90%).
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Masovian6 girls born+266%
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Lower Silesian2 girls born+175%
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Silesian2 girls born+90%
Margaryta as a middle name
Margaryta is a first name for 621 women in Poland and a middle name for another 16, a 97/3 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1846th, between Madlena (16) and Melani (16).
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#1844 Madelaine16
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#1845 Madlena16
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#1846 Margaryta16
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#1847 Melani16
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#1848 Mijal16