Margota
Just 184 women in Poland carry Margota, and no newborns received it last year: rare enough that most Poles have never met one. The root is Greek, margaritēs, meaning pearl.
Margota Pronunciation
Margota is pronounced mahr-GO-tah (/marˈgɔta/).
What Margota means
Where Margota comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Margota grows from the Greek word margaritēs, which meant pearl. That single image, a pearl, has followed the name across languages, and in Polish the meaning is simply perła. The Greek root passed into Latin as margarita and spread west, giving rise to the Margaret family that Margota belongs to.
A pearl was rare cargo in the ancient world, prized above most stones. The name kept that association wherever it traveled.
Margota is spare and direct. It has no diminutives or variants tied to it here, no softer nickname to hide behind. When the imieniny arrives, the person named Margota shares the day with the wider Margaret line, and the pearl behind the name returns: perła, the meaning it has held from Greek onward.
How many people are named Margota
1 in 122521 women in Poland is named Margota. 184 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2345 among female names.
Margota as a middle name
Margota is a first name for 184 women in Poland and a middle name for another 76, a 71/29 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 764th, between Elaine (76) and Romina (76).
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