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Margaret
Margaret is a feminine given name, which means "pearl". It is of Latin origin, via Ancient Greek and ultimately from Iranian languages, Old Iranian. It has been an English language, English name since the 11th century, and remained popular throughout the Middle Ages. It became less popular between the 16th and 18th century, but became more common again after this period, becoming the second-most popular female name in the United States in 1903. Since this time, it has become less common, but was still the ninth-most common name for women of all ages in the United States as of the List of most popular given names, 1990 census. Margaret has many diminutive forms in many languages, including Daisy (given name), Daisy, Greta (given name), Greta, Gretchen, Maggie, Madge (given name), Madge, Maisie (given name), Maisie, Marge, Margie, Margo (given name), Margo, Margot, Marnie (given name), Marnie, Meg, Megan, Molly (name), Molly, Peggy (given name), Peggy, and Rita (given name), Rita. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret The Virgin
Margaret, known as Margaret of Antioch in the West, and as Saint Marina the Great Martyr () in the East, is celebrated as a saint on 20 July in Western Christianity, on 30th of July (Julian calendar) by the Eastern Orthodox Church, and on Epip 23 and Hathor (month), Hathor 23 in the Coptic Orthodox Church. She was reputed to have promised very powerful indulgences to those who wrote or read her hagiography, life or invoked her intercessions; these no doubt helped the spread of her following. Margaret is one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers in Roman Catholic tradition. Hagiography According to a 9th-century martyrology of Rabanus Maurus, Margaret suffered at Antioch of Pisidia, Antioch in Pisidia (in what is now Turkey) in c. 304, during the Diocletianic Persecution. She was the daughter of a pagan priest named Aedesius. Her mother having died soon after her birth, Margaret was nursed by a Christian woman five or six League_(unit), leagues () from Antioch. Having embraced Christiani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarete
Margarete is a German feminine given name. It is derived from Ancient Greek ''margarites'' (μαργαρίτης), meaning "the pearl". Via the Latin ''margarita'', it arrived in the German sprachraum. Related names in English include Daisy, Greta, Gretchen, Madge, Mae, Mag, Magee, Magdy, Magga, Maggie, Maggy, Maidie, Maisie, Marg, Margaret Margaret is a feminine given name, which means "pearl". It is of Latin origin, via Ancient Greek and ultimately from Iranian languages, Old Iranian. It has been an English language, English name since the 11th century, and remained popular thro ..., Marguerite, Margarita, Margareta, Margarida, Marge, Margery, Marget, Margo, Margot, Marjorie, Marjory, Matge, May, Meg, Megan, Mairead, Mer, Meta, Rita, Molly, Peg and Peggy. People named Margarete * Margarete Weißkirchner (1460–1500), commoner and common-law spouse of Philip I, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg * Margarete of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1516 or 1517–15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaretta (given Name)
Margaretta is a feminine given name. It derives from Latin, where it came from the Greek word ''margaritari'' (μαργαριτάρι), meaning pearl, which was borrowed from the Persians. It is cognate with Margaret, Marguerite, and Margarita.Iseabail MacLeod and Terry Freedman, Dictionary of First Names' (1995), p. 146. People with the name include: * Margaretta Brucker (1883–1958), American fiction author * Margaretta Higford Burr, also known as Anne-Margaretta Burr (1817–1892), English watercolour painter * Margaretta Parker Cox, née Blair (fl. 1910s–1950s), second wife of politician James M. Cox and First Lady of Ohio * Margaretta Craig (1902–1963), American nurse and a missionary * Margaretta D'Arcy (born 1934), Irish actress, writer, playwright, and activist * Margaretta Dressler, née Park (f. 1890s), wife of William F. Dressler * Margaretta Eagar (1863—1936), Irish woman who was a nanny to the daughters of the Emperor and Empress of Russia * Margaretta F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margareta
Margareta is a female given name mainly used by Germans, Austrians, Romanians, Swedes, and others. It derives from Latin, where it came from the Greek word ''margaritari'' (μαργαριτάρι), meaning pearl, which was borrowed from the Persians. It is cognate with Margaret, Marguerite, and Margarita.Iseabail MacLeod and Terry Freedman, Dictionary of First Names' (1995), p. 146. People with the name include: * Margareta (missionary) (–), Swedish missionary *Margareta of Romania (born 1949), Crown-Princess of Romania * Maya Ackerman, Russian-American computer scientist * Margareta Alströmer (1763–1816), Swedish artist * Margareta Andersson (born 1948), Swedish politician * Margareta Bengtson (born 1966), Swedish soprano *Margareta Brahe (1603–1669), Swedish lady-in-waiting * Margareta Capsia (1682–1759), Finnish artist *Margareta Cederfelt (born 1959), Swedish politician * Margareta Cederschiöld, Swedish tennis player * Margareta Dockvil (died after 1673), Swedish h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margie
Margie is a feminine given name, usually a short form (hypocorism) of the related names Margaret, Marjorie, or Margarita, all of which mean "pearl". Margie may refer to: People * Margie Abbott (born 1958), Australian businesswoman * Margie Ackles (1939–2019), American retired figure skater * Margie Adam, American musician and composer * Marjorie Margie Alexander (1948–2013), American gospel and soul singer * Margie Apa, New Zealand healthcare manager * Margie Velma Barfield (1932-1984), American serial killer * Margie Bowes (1941–2020), American country music singer * Margie Bright Matthews (born 1963), American politician * Margie Rasri Balenciaga Chirathiwat (born 1990), Thai actress and model * Margie Cole, American bridge player * Margie Cox, American singer * Margie Day (1926–2014), stage name of Margaret Hoffler, American R&B singer * Margaret Dingeldein (born 1980), American water polo player * Margie Donlon, American politician and lawyer * Margie Eu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarita (given Name)
Margarita is a feminine given name in Latin and Eastern European languages. In Latin it came from the Greek word ''margaritari'' (μαργαριτάρι), meaning pearl, which was borrowed from the Persians. (In Sogdian, it was ''marγārt''. In modern Persian, the word has become مروارید, ''morvārīd'', meaning 'pearl'.) The flower daisy is called ''margarita'' in Spanish, Greek and other languages. The name is also used in Albanian, Greek, Bulgarian and Russian. The traditional short form of this name is Rita. List of people with the given name * Infanta Margarita, 2nd Duchess of Hernani (born 1939), the younger sister of King Juan Carlos and aunt of the reigning King Felipe VI of Spain * Margaret of Austria (1584–1611), Queen consort of Spain and Portugal by her marriage to King Philip III and II * Margarita "Peggy" Schuyler Van Rensselaer (1758–1801), the third daughter of Continental Army General Philip Schuyler and sister in law of Alexander Hamilton * Princ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Małgorzata
Małgorzata () is a common Polish female given name derived through Latin ''Margarita'' from Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs), meaning "pearl". It is equivalent to the English "Margaret". Its diminutive A diminutive is a word obtained by modifying a root word to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, either to convey the smallness of the object or quality named, or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment, and sometimes to belittle s ... forms include Małgośka, Małgosia, Gosia, Gośka, Gosieńka, Gosiunia. Art * Małgorzata Dawidek Gryglicka (born 1976), Polish painter * Goshka Macuga (born 1967), Polish-born artist * Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (born 1978), Polish-Romani artist * Małgorzata Turewicz Lafranchi (born 1961), Polish visual artist Music * Małgorzata Babiarz (born 1984), professionally known as Megitza, Polish singer, double bass player, and composer * Małgorzata Jamroży (born 1991), professionally known as Margaret, Poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peggy (given Name)
Peggy is a female first name (often curtailed to "Peg") derived from Meggy, a diminutive version of the name Margaret (name), Margaret. People Writers * Peggy Adam, French comic book artist and illustrator * Peggy Adler (born 1942), American writer * Peggy Anderson (1938–2016), American author and journalist * Peggy Carr, Vincentian poet * Peggy Pond Church (1903–1986), American writer * Peggy Dennis, American Russian journalist, author and Communist activist * Peggy Dern, American novelist * Peggy Dunstan (1920–2010), New Zealand poet and writer * Peggy Fortnum (1919–2016), English illustrator * Peggy Frew (born 1976), Australian author * Peggy Goodin (1923–1983), American novelist * Peggy Hull (1889–1967), American journalist * Peggy Bennette Hume, British playwright and children’s author * Peggy Kornegger, American writer * Peggy McIntosh (born 1934), American writer and activist * Peggy Moreland, American novelist * Peggy Noonan (born 1950), American author and com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margrit
Margrit is a given name, an equivalent to the English name Margaret. Notable people with this name include: * Margrit Bolli (1919–2017), Swiss dancer * Margrit Brückner (born 1946), German sociologist and professor * Margrit Conrad (1918–2005), Swiss singer * Margrit Gertsch (born 1939), Swiss alpine skier * Margrit Hess (born 1947), Swiss middle-distance runner * Margrit Kennedy (1939 –2013), German architect, professor, environmentalist, author and advocate * Margrit Knabenhans (born 1935), Swiss swimmer * Margrit Klinger (born 1960), German middle-distance runner * Margrit Läubli (born 1928), Swiss actress, comedian, dancer and radio personality * Margrit Mondavi (1925–2016), American businesswoman * Margrit Olfert (born 1947), East German athlete * Margrit Rainer (1914–1982), Swiss actress * Margrit Selke (1900–2004), specialist in biodynamic agriculture * Margrit Shildrick, interdisciplinary academic * Margrit Schiller (born 1948), German far-left ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marguerite (given Name)
Marguerite is a French female given name, from which the English name Margaret is derived. Marguerite derives via Latin and Greek μαργαρίτης ''(margarítēs)'', meaning "pearl". It is also a French name for the Leucanthemum vulgare, ox-eye daisy flower. Those with the name include: People Nobility * Margaret of Bourbon (1438–1483) or Marguerite de Bourbon, Princess of Savoy by marriage * Margaret of France (1553–1615) or Marguerite de Valois, wife of Henry IV of France and Navarre * Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry or Marguerite de Valois (1523–1574), daughter of King Francis I of France * Margaret, Countess of Anjou or Marguerite d'Angou (1273–1299), Countess of Anjou and Maine in her own right and Countess of Valois, Alençon, Chartres and Perche by marriage * Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549), princess of France, Queen of Navarre and Duchess of Alençon and Berry * Marguerite III de Neufchâtel (1480–1544), German-Roman monarch as Princess Abbess of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margit
Margit is a feminine given name, a version of Margaret Margaret is a feminine given name, which means "pearl". It is of Latin origin, via Ancient Greek and ultimately from Iranian languages, Old Iranian. It has been an English language, English name since the 11th century, and remained popular thro .... People bearing the name include: * Margit of Hungary (1175–1223), Empress consort of Isaac II Angelos, Byzantine Emperor * Saint Margit of Hungary (1242–1271), Hungarian nun and princess * Margit Albrechtsson (1918–1994), Swedish cross country skier * Margit Anna (1913–1991), Hungarian painter * Margit Bangó (born 1950), Hungarian Romani singer and recipient of the Kossuth Prize * Margit Bara (1928–2016), Hungarian actress * Margit Beck (1918–1997), Hungarian-born American painter * Margit Brandt (1945–2011), Danish fashion designer * Margit Carlqvist (born 1932), Swedish actress * Margit Carstensen (1940–2023), German actress * Margit Dajka (1907–1986), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margherita
Margherita is an Italian feminine given name. It also is a surname. As a word, in Italian it means " daisy". The name is related to Margaret. Given name As a name, it may refer to: * Margherita da Trento (anglicized as Margaret of Trent) companion of Fra Dolcino of Novara, leader of the heretical New Apostles (c. 2nd half of 1200shttps://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/margherita-da-trento_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/-1307) *Margherita Aldobrandini (1588–1646), Duchess consort of Parma * Margherita de' Medici (1612–1679), Duchess of Parma and Piacenza * Margherita Maria Farnese (1664–1718), Duchess of Modena and Reggio *Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma (1847–1893) *Margherita of Savoy (1851–1926), former Queen Consort of Italy and wife of Umberto I *Margherita, Archduchess of Austria-Este (1930–2022) *Margherita Bagni (1902–1960), Italian actress *Margherita Piazzola Beloch (1879–1976), Italian mathematician *Margherita Boniver (born 1938), Italian politician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
