Margerita
Fewer than 150 Polish women carry it, so meeting one sticks in the memory. A Greek name at root, from the word for "pearl".
Margerita Pronunciation
Margerita is pronounced mahr-ge-REE-tah (/margɛˈrita/).
What Margerita means
Where Margerita comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Margerita comes from Greek. The word margaritēs meant pearl, and that meaning has stayed fixed. In Polish it is perła, the small round thing people valued long before anyone shaped it into a name. Latin borrowed the same word, which is why the daisy is called margarita in botany, a white flower keeping the pearl sense in its petals.
Rita is the short form. It broke off from the fuller margarita and now stands on its own, brief enough to carry across a school corridor. On a class register you might find both the long name and the clipped one, and they can point to the same girl.
The variant margarita keeps the root almost bare, a Polish spelling of an old Greek noun. The meaning underneath does not move with the letters. It is still pearl, still perła.
How many people are named Margerita
1 in 158759 women in Poland is named Margerita. 142 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2750 among female names.
Margerita as a middle name
Margerita is a first name for 142 women in Poland and a middle name for another 65, a 69/31 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 847th, between Lucie (65) and Trang (65).
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#845 Katia65
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#846 Lucie65
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#847 Margerita65
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#848 Trang65
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#849 Alberta64