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Early Origins of the Margot family

The surname Margot was first found in Sussex where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor. The Saxon influence of English history diminished after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The language of the courts was French for the next three centuries and the Norman ambience prevailed. But Saxon surnames survived and the family name was first referenced in the 13th century when they held lands.

Early History of the Margot family

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Margot Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Margate, Margat, Margot, Margott, Margatt and many more.

Early Notables of the Margot family

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Margot Ranking

In France, the name Margot is the 5,079th most popular surname with an estimated 1,000 - 1,500 people with that name. 1


United States Margot migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Margot Settlers in United States in the 18th Century
  • Joseph Margot, who landed in Mobile, Ala in 1764 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Margot (post 1700) +

  • Felix Margot, American politician, U.S. Vice Consul in Harput, 1907 3
  • Patricia Margot McClain (b. 1954), American model
  • Cecily Margot Lefort (1900-1945), born Cecily Margot MacKenzie, British SOE agent during World War II, posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre, and was Mentioned in Dispatches
  • Margot Eskens (1939-2022), German Schlager singer popular in the 1950s and 1960s
  • Margot Duhalde Sotomayor (1920-2018), Chilean pilot who served with the Air Transport Auxiliary of the Royal Air Force in World War II, Chile's first female pilot and first female air traffic controller
  • Margot Tomes (1917-1991), American children's book illustrator, known for Jack and the Wonder Beans in 1977 and If There Were Dreams to Sell in 1984
  • Margot Hartman Tenney (d. 2020), American actress and the chairman of the board of the First Stamford Corporation
  • Margot Winspear (1932-2015), American philanthropist who with her husband were co-eponyms of the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House, Dallas, Texas
  • Margot Pardoe (1902-1996), British children's author, active from the late 1930s to the early 1960s, best known for her Bunkle adventure series
  • Margot Hielscher (1919-2017), German singer and film actress who appeared in over fifty films between and 1939 and 1994


  1. http://www.journaldesfemmes.com/nom-de-famille/nom/
  2. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
  3. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2016, January 22) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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