Margarita is the Spanish and Russian form of Margaret, from the Latin margarita and ultimately the Greek margarites, meaning "pearl"; in Spanish the word also means "daisy". It is a classic across Latin America and the name of the heroine in Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita. In the United States Margarita ranked number 654 in 2000 but has since fallen out of the top 1000 and stands at number 1893 in 2025.