Marge
Marge was last recorded in 1976, when 5 babies were given it; 3,784 Americans have been recorded with it between 1889 and 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,210 Americans named Marge and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (32% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 67 and 84.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marge by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marge mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Marge is “a diminutive of the female given names Marjorie and Margaret.”
/mɑɹd͡ʒ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marge?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,217, in 1976; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
114 babies in 1941, the peak
Marge peaked in 1941, when 114 girls were given it, #665 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 5 | #10,217 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,827 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,133 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,769 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,135 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,583 | 8.5 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,271 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 21 | #2,719 | 11.9 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,059 | 9.5 |
| 1963 | 31 | #2,156 | 16.1 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 59 | #1,452 | 30.0 |
| 1961 | 55 | #1,527 | 27.2 |
| 1960 | 59 | #1,440 | 29.2 |
| 1959 | 57 | #1,429 | 28.2 |
| 1958 | 61 | #1,359 | 30.3 |
| 1957 | 50 | #1,520 | 24.5 |
| 1956 | 34 | #1,854 | 16.9 |
| 1955 | 37 | #1,716 | 18.9 |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,929 | 15.4 |
| 1953 | 44 | #1,480 | 23.4 |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,962 | 14.6 |
| 1951 | 33 | #1,684 | 18.3 |
| 1950 | 33 | #1,641 | 19.3 |
| 1949 | 46 | #1,361 | 26.9 |
| 1948 | 48 | #1,339 | 28.3 |
| 1947 | 84 | #971 | 47.4 |
| 1946 | 93 | #859 | 59.2 |
| 1945 | 91 | #786 | 69.6 |
| 1944 | 77 | #871 | 58.0 |
| 1943 | 102 | #773 | 73.1 |
| 1942 | 80 | #861 | 59.2 |
| 1941 | 114 | #665 | 94.4 |
| 1940 | 85 | #758 | 74.3 |
| 1939 | 99 | #684 | 90.3 |
| 1938 | 101 | #686 | 91.5 |
| 1937 | 77 | #783 | 72.4 |
| 1936 | 59 | #892 | 56.7 |
| 1935 | 65 | #858 | 62.0 |
| 1934 | 60 | #882 | 57.5 |
| 1933 | 52 | #955 | 51.6 |
| 1932 | 63 | #888 | 59.0 |
| 1931 | 53 | #955 | 49.8 |
| 1930 | 72 | #843 | 63.9 |
| 1929 | 61 | #919 | 54.6 |
| 1928 | 56 | #1,005 | 48.6 |
| 1927 | 73 | #871 | 61.2 |
| 1926 | 76 | #850 | 64.1 |
| 1925 | 68 | #903 | 55.9 |
| 1924 | 100 | #739 | 80.1 |
| 1923 | 74 | #856 | 61.3 |
| 1922 | 98 | #737 | 81.6 |
| 1921 | 83 | #808 | 67.3 |
| 1920 | 94 | #748 | 78.4 |
| 1919 | 63 | #886 | 55.7 |
| 1918 | 93 | #741 | 80.3 |
| 1917 | 90 | #743 | 83.2 |
| 1916 | 67 | #828 | 64.2 |
| 1915 | 73 | #776 | 74.2 |
| 1914 | 49 | #846 | 64.3 |
| 1913 | 40 | #834 | 64.0 |
| 1912 | 38 | #815 | 68.1 |
| 1911 | 23 | #919 | 55.0 |
| 1910 | 14 | #1,247 | 35.3 |
| 1909 | 20 | #926 | 57.6 |
| 1908 | 23 | #818 | 68.8 |
| 1907 | 16 | #974 | 50.2 |
| 1906 | 22 | #783 | 74.5 |
| 1905 | 12 | #1,140 | 41.1 |
| 1904 | 12 | #1,081 | 43.6 |
| 1903 | 10 | #1,182 | 38.2 |
| 1902 | 13 | #1,002 | 49.2 |
| 1901 | 12 | #987 | 50.1 |
| 1900 | 12 | #1,146 | 40.0 |
| 1899 | 8 | #1,248 | 34.3 |
| 1898 | 11 | #1,079 | 42.5 |
| 1897 | 11 | #1,014 | 47.0 |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,376 | 29.4 |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,261 | 34.2 |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,041 | 44.9 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,388 | 28.3 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,222 | 33.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marge a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marge has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 81 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marge: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marge, and how old are they?
1,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 32% of the 3,784 Americans ever recorded as Marge. The median Marge alive today is 77 years old; half are between 67 and 84.
The 2020 Census counted 3,993 people named Marge (3,969 women and girls, 24 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,573 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 447 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 685 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 75 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Marge born?
The states with the most babies named Marge are Illinois, Ohio and Michigan, with 59% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 570 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| Ohio | 213 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 188 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 160 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 127 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| California | 124 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Wisconsin | 107 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Minnesota | 61 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 44 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 26 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Marge is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marge is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1910 it was given 2.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Marge with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 139,938 babies since 1880, Marge is the third most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 557 babies recorded by SSA was a Marge (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Marge
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Marge and names like it
- Compare Marge and MargieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sMarge peaked in 1941.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marge since 1910.
- The top names of 1941The year the most babies were named Marge.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Marge alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.