Margo

French, diminutive of Margaret
"pearl"

Margo Origin and Meaning

The name Margo is a girl's name of French origin meaning "pearl".

Margo and Margot sound exactly the same, so why has the Margot spelling hopped back onto the Top 1000, outpacing Margo in numbers more than two to one? (Over 350 baby girls were named Margot in the most recent year, versus 150 named Margo.)

Credit the Gwyneth Paltrow character Margot in The Royal Tennenbaums and hot Australian star Margot Robbie. And maybe to some parents, the Margot spelling seems more like a complete name.

But it may also create some pronunciation confusion. And Margo gives you the same blend of fashionable o-ending and classic feel.

# 542 in the US

Margo Rank in US Top 1000

# 547 on Nameberry

Margo Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Margo Popularity

Famous People Named Margo

  • Margo Cathleen Harshman
    American actress
  • Margo Martindale
    American Actress
  • Margo Rey (born Margarita Reymundo)
    Mexican,American singer,songwriter
  • Margo (born María Marguerita Guadalupe Teresa Estela Bolado Castilla y O'Donnell)
    Mexican,American actress
  • Margo (born Margeret Catherine O'Donnell)
    Irish country music singer
  • Małgorzata "Margo" Dydek
    Polish basketball player
  • Margo Symington MacDonald
    Scottish politician
  • Margaret Isabel Mabel "Margo" Durrell
    younger sister of novelist Lawrence Durrell, featured in his Corfu novels

Margo in Pop Culture

  • Margo Hughes
    character on American soap opera As the World Turns
  • Margo Dunne
    character in book/film Gone Girl
  • Margo Gru
    character in the Despicable Me movies
  • Margo Lane
    character in The Shadow series
  • Margo Roth Spiegelman
    character in John Green's Paper Towns
  • Margo
    character in film "Lars and the Real Girl"
  • Margo Dowling
    film star character in the "U.S.A." trilogy by John Dos Passos
  • Margo Pike
    Mallory Pike's sister in the Baby,Sitters club series by Ann M. Martin
  • Margo Masse
    character in movie "Fear" played by Alyssa Milano
  • Margo Barclay
    character from Perfect Harmony, by Barbara Wood
  • Margo Channing
    character from the film, All About Eve
  • Margo
    character in Siobhan Vivian's "The List"
  • Margo
    a character in film Meet The Spartans
  • Margo Sherman
    a character on animated series The Critic
  • Margo Leadbetter
    a character on British TV series The Good Life
  • Margo Magee
    character in newspaper comic strip Apartment 3G
  • Margo Huntington
    character on TV's The Edge of Night
  • Margo Hanson
    a character on TV's The Magicians
  • Margo Bardem
    character in the Ruby Redfort book series by Lauren Child