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I like Margaret (two syllables usually, except for emphasis) very much. I didn't much like a Margaret relative: she's OK but we had nothing in common and once our parents had died we were never in touch. But the name is fine. Weirdly, on several occasions when I was late teens, early 20s, random strangers came up to me in town and greeted me as Margaret. My relative and I had brown hair and green eyes in common, but she's very much taller than me, with a very different body shape, so I never understood it. And I didn't know her well enough to ask her if people ever addressed her by my name!

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Here in South Africa, the most frequently used nn for Margaret is Margie, pronounced with a g, not a j. I don't like it at all. Maggie is OK and I like Peggy a lot, but I've only ever known one Peggy person and it is her actual given name. We tried to use Meg as a nn for a Margaret at school, but it just didn't stick.