Margot

Began as a French diminutive of Marguerite, which traces back to the Greek word for pearl. The spelling entered American birth rolls in the late nineteenth century as a foreign import. For decades it lingered in modest numbers before surging into wide circulation during the twenty-first century.

The name carries the crispness of a European import with a silent terminal consonant that substitute teachers occasionally misread. Today it largely belongs to children whose parents wanted an alternative to Margaret without losing the family resemblance. The general assumption is that a Margot owns striped knitwear and expresses strong opinions on typography.