Greta:
Environmental activist Greta Thunberg — full name Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg — was born on January 3, 2003 in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2015, Greta held the first “School Strike for Climate” outside the Swedish parliament, as well as organized school walkouts throughout that year.
In 2019, Greta performed a world-famous speech at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York, stating “You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words, and yet I'm one of the lucky ones. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth.”
One of many short-forms of classic Margaret, Greta peaked in the US in the 1930s, but only as high as #318. In the late 2010s when Thunberg’s activism was an especially hot topic, Greta had somewhat of a resurgence, verging on cracking the Top 500 once again.
Now Greta has fallen back once more in the US, ranking #858 in 2022. In Europe, however, she has plenty of style — as high as #17 in Italy.
Greta has Old Hollywood glamour through the iconic Greta Garbo, and actress and writer Greta Gerwig — director of hugely successful films Barbie, Little Women, and Ladybird — is a modern namesake.
Other short forms of Margaret that are stylish today include Margot and Margo, Maggie and Mae, Maisie and Daisy. Unique international variations include Hebrew Margalit, French Marguerite, Irish Mairead, Scottish Marjorie, and Aramaic Marit.