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Character Name

Margot

Meaning — Margot is a French feminine given name, a diminutive of Marguerite, itself from the Latin Margarita meaning "pearl" (from the Greek margarites). Margot has long functioned as an independent name in France, borne most famously by Marguerite de Valois (known as la reine Margot), whose scandalous life Alexandre Dumas dramatized in his novel La Reine Margot.·French origin·Female·mar-GO

Margot Margot carries the vivacious energy and aristocratic insouciance of French feminine style — the name of queens who broke rules and artists who defied convention. In contemporary French fiction, Margot tends to belong to women of effortless confidence and a certain charming unpredictability, as comfortable at a Parisian dinner party as at the center of historical intrigue.

Best genres for Margot

Historical FictionLiterary FictionRomanceHistorical Romance

Famous characters named Margot

la Reine Margot

La Reine Margot Alexandre Dumas

The beautiful and politically astute Queen of Navarre whose marriages and intrigues amid the Wars of Religion provide the backdrop for Dumas's historical drama.


Variations & nicknames

MargotMargoMargauxMarguerite

Pairs well with

Margot DupontMargot RenardMargot BeaumontMargot DelacroixMargot LaurentMargot Fontaine

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