Marge — girls' name

What the Data Says About Marge

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,784 babies named Marge between 1889 and 1976, spanning 88 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marge currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1976. The name reached its historical peak in 1941, when 114 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marge performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 820 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Marge shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 570 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Marge in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marge in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,784 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.