Margot
Margot is a feminine given name, a French diminutive of Marguerite that has long been used as an independent name. Variant spellings in use include Margo and Margaux. It is also occasionally a surname.
Usage
An increase in usage of the name in England and Wales was attributed to the popularity of the Australian actress Margot Robbie and the 2023 American film Barbie. The name was among the top 50 names given to British girls born in 2023. It has also increased in use elsewhere in the Anglosphere, including New Zealand and the United States. It has been in regular use in French-speaking countries including Belgium, France, and in Quebec, Canada.Persons named Margot include the following:
People with the given name Margot
- Marguerite de Valois, known as La Reine Margot, queen of France and of Navarre
- Margot Abad, Argentine film actress
- Margot Adler, American journalist
- Margot Anand, French author, teacher, seminar leader and public speaker
- Margot Arce de Vázquez, Puerto Rican essayist and educator
- Margot Arnold, British-born American novelist
- Margot Asquith, countess of Oxford and Asquith
- Margot Austin, American children’s book illustrator
- Margot Badran, scholar of Middle Eastern history and women's studies
- Margot Bailet, French alpine skier
- Margot Bærentzen, Danish fencer
- Margot Becke-Goehring, German chemist
- Margot Benacerraf, Venezuelan film director
- Margot Bengtsson, Swedish psychologist
- Margot Bennett, several people
- Margot von Beroldingen, American heiress
- Margot Bettauer Dembo, German-born American translator
- Margot Béziat, French canoeist
- Margot Bingham, American actress and singer-songwriter
- Margot Blakely, New Zealand alpine skier
- Margot Blanche, French/Filipino singer and songwriter
- Margot Boer, Dutch speed skater
- Margot Bogert, American Scouting leader
- Margot Botsford, American judge
- Margot Boulet, French rower
- Margot Boyd, English actress
- Margot Bryant, British actress
- Margot Chevrier, French pole vaulter
- Margot Ciccarelli, Brazilian jiu jitsu practitioner from Italy
- Margot Clyne, American cyclist
- Margot Comstock, American computer magazine editor
- Margot Cottens, Uruguayan actress
- Margot Dalton, American novelist
- Margot Day, American singer-songwriter
- Margot Debén, Nicaraguan-Puerto Rican actress, singer, musician, show host and magician
- Margot Desvignes, French ice hockey player
- Margot Dittmeyer, German tennis player
- Margot Donald, Australian photographer
- Margot Dorenfeldt, Norwegian chemist
- Margot Douaihy, American writer
- Margot Drake, English actress
- Margot Dreschel, nazi concentration camp guard
- Margot Duhalde, Chilean aviator
- Margot Eates, British art historian and curator
- Margot Eskens, German singer
- Margot Fassler, American historian
- Margot Finn, British historian and academic
- Margot Flemming, Canadian curler
- Margot Fonteyn, British ballerina
- Margot Forde, New Zealand botanist
- Margot Foster, Australian rower
- Margot Frank, sister of German World War II diarist Anne Frank
- Margot Franssen, Dutch-born Canadian entrepreneur and activist
- Margot Friedländer, German survivor of the Holocaust and public speaker
- Margot Garabedian, Cambodian triathlete
- Margot Gayle, American historian preservationist
- Margot van Geffen, Dutch field hockey player
- Margot Glockshuber, German pair skater
- Margot Gore, British aviator and osteopath
- Margot Grahame, British actress
- Margot Guilleaume, German operatic soprano
- Margot Hartman, American actress
- Margot Hellwig, German volksmusik singer
- Margot Heuman, German-born American Holocaust survivor
- Margot Hielscher, German singer and actress
- Margot Hilton, British-born Australian author
- Margot Honecker, German politician, wife of Erich Honecker
- Margot Horspool, British jurist
- Margot Hutcheson, Australian artist
- Margot Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading, British aristocrat and campaigner
- Margot James, British Conservative politician
- Margot Janse, Dutch chef
- Margot Jefferys, British sociologist and professor
- Margot Kalinke, German politician
- Margot Kaminski, American AI and privacy professor
- Margot Käßmann, German theologist and writer
- Margot Kelly, Australian hotel manager and restaurateur
- Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress known for playing Lois Lane in Superman
- Margot Klestil-Löffler, Austrian diplomat
- Margot Knight, Australian actress
- Margot Kober, Austrian cross-country skier
- Margot Kraneveldt, Dutch politician
- Margot Lambert, French badminton player
- Margot Lander, Danish ballerina
- Margot Leicester, British actress
- Margot Lemire, Canadian poet and playwright
- Margot Leverett, American clarinet player
- Margot Livesey, Scottish-born writer
- Margot Llobera, Andorran footballer
- Margot Lovejoy, American artist and art historian
- Margot Lumb, British squash player
- Margot MacGibbon, Australian violinist and teacher
- Margot Machol, American writer and government official
- Margot Mahler, German actress
- Margot Marshall, British soldier
- Margot Marsman, Dutch swimmer
- Margot Mayo, American dance instructor
- Margot Moe, Norwegian figure skater
- Margot Moles, Spanish alpine skier
- Margot Neville, pseudonym of Margot Goyder and Ann Goyder
- Margot O'Neill, Australian journalist, writer and producer
- Margot Osmeña, Filipino politician
- Margot Pardoe, British children's writer
- Margot Parker, British politician
- Margot Peet, American painter
- Margot Perryman, British artist
- Margot Peters, American novelist and biographer
- Margot Pfannstiel, German journalist
- Margot Philips, New Zealand painter
- Margot Pilz, Austrian visual artist
- Margot Prior, Australian psychologist and autism researcher
- Margot von Renesse, German politician
- Margot Ravinel, French ski mountaineer
- Margot Rhys, Australian actress
- Margot Rojas Mendoza, Cuban pianist and teacher
- Margot Robbie, Australian actress
- Margot Robinne, French footballer
- Margot Römer, Venezuelan artist
- Margot Roosevelt, American journalist
- Margot Rose, American actress
- Margot Ruddock, English actress, poet and singer
- Margot Sanger-Katz, American journalist
- Margot von Schlieffen, German film editor
- Margot Lee Shetterly, American nonfiction writer
- Margot Shiner, German-British gastroenterologist
- Margot Shumway, American rower
- Margot Siegel, American journalist
- Margot Sikabonyi, Italian actress
- Margot Singer, American short story writer and novelist
- Margot Smith, Australian musical artist
- Margot Sponer, German philologist and resistant fighter
- Margot Stern Strom, American educator
- Margot Stevenson, American actress
- Margot Sunderland, British psychologist
- Małgorzata Szutowicz, widely known as Margot, Polish non-binary LGBTQIA activist and co-founder of the Stop Bzdurom collective
- Margot Taulé, Dominican engineer and architect
- Margot Thien, American synchronized swimmer
- Margot Tomes, American artist and illustrator
- Margot Trooger, German actress
- Margot Turner, British nurse
- Margot Vanpachtenbeke, Belgian cyclist
- Margot Vella, Australian dual-code rugby player
- Margot Walle, Norwegian figure skater
- Margot Wallström, Swedish politician
- Margot Walter, German actress
- Margot Wells, British athlete
- Margot Werner, Austrian ballet dancer, singer and actress
- Margot Wicki-Schwarzschild, German Holocaust witness
- Margot Wikström Swedish politician of the Social Democratic Party
- Margot Williams, American botanist
- Margot Yerolymos, French tennis player
- Margot Zemach, American illustrator
- Margot Zuidhof, Dutch field hockey player
People with the surname Margot
- Georges Margot, French equestrian
- Jean-Luc Margot, Belgian astronomer
- Manuel Margot, Dominican baseball player
In entertainment and culture
- Margot, 2009 film starring Anne-Marie Duff as ballerina Margot Fonteyn
- Margot at the Wedding, 2007 American film by Noah Baumbach
- La Reine Margot, 1845 novel by Alexandre Dumas
- La Reine Margot, 1994 film based on the Dumas novel starring Isabelle Adjani
- Margot, a character in the film Legally Blonde
- Margot, a character in the comic book Nemesis: Reloaded, Nemesis: Rogues' Gallery, and Nemesis: Forever
- Margot Tenenbaum, a character in the film The Royal Tenenbaums
- Margot, the protagonist of Ray Bradbury's All Summer in a Day
- Margot Mary Wendice, a character in the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film Dial M For Murder
- Margot Beste-Chetwynde, a character in Evelyn Waugh's novel Decline and Fall
- Margot Lane, assistant to Lamont Cranston, a character in the 1940 American film serial ''The Shadow''