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Why not? It's a standard nic, like Elize for Elizabeth. But since they're both used as independent names, I'd be inclined to just use Margot. It hasn't got the spelling and pronunciation issues that Marguerite has. I knew an English-speaking Margot who must be in her 80s by now; I also got chatting to a little girl at a sports meeting once: she was Afrikaans, and told me that her name was Margot. She pronounced it, and so did her parents of course, maR XHOT, where XH is the throat-clearing sound. But she was actually always called Margotjie, which sounds like mar XHOI key.