Margery
Margery was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,300 among girls’ names; 15,791 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,310 Americans named Margery and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (27% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 65 and 82.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Margery by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Margery mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Margery is “a medieval vernacular form of Margaret, A female given name from Ancient Greek.”
From Old French; ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Margery?
#14,300 among girls’ names, 2025
Margery entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #14,300 in 2025.
564 babies in 1921, the peak
Margery peaked in 1921, when 564 girls were given it, #280 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,300 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,853 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,808 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,299 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,713 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,827 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,040 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,814 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,814 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,724 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (134)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 7 | #13,666 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,976 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,978 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,950 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,392 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,014 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,487 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,106 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,272 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,277 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,314 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,215 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,833 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,435 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,260 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,775 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,589 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,150 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,770 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,427 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,329 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,116 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,098 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,571 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,735 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,583 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,561 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,150 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,855 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,656 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 34 | #2,289 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,796 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,917 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 43 | #1,974 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 39 | #2,017 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 46 | #1,742 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 52 | #1,578 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 66 | #1,343 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 77 | #1,236 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 74 | #1,305 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 84 | #1,195 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 88 | #1,174 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 103 | #1,081 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 82 | #1,207 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 90 | #1,127 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 113 | #975 | 0.06 |
| 1957 | 118 | #948 | 0.06 |
| 1956 | 144 | #823 | 0.07 |
| 1955 | 138 | #822 | 0.07 |
| 1954 | 148 | #769 | 0.08 |
| 1953 | 198 | #633 | 0.11 |
| 1952 | 204 | #612 | 0.11 |
| 1951 | 170 | #672 | 0.09 |
| 1950 | 184 | #621 | 0.11 |
| 1949 | 220 | #561 | 0.13 |
| 1948 | 229 | #546 | 0.13 |
| 1947 | 302 | #473 | 0.17 |
| 1946 | 215 | #539 | 0.14 |
| 1945 | 216 | #495 | 0.17 |
| 1944 | 242 | #463 | 0.18 |
| 1943 | 230 | #489 | 0.16 |
| 1942 | 249 | #467 | 0.18 |
| 1941 | 222 | #471 | 0.18 |
| 1940 | 212 | #461 | 0.19 |
| 1939 | 210 | #464 | 0.19 |
| 1938 | 219 | #454 | 0.20 |
| 1937 | 224 | #440 | 0.21 |
| 1936 | 217 | #439 | 0.21 |
| 1935 | 254 | #405 | 0.24 |
| 1934 | 277 | #385 | 0.27 |
| 1933 | 297 | #370 | 0.29 |
| 1932 | 316 | #359 | 0.30 |
| 1931 | 317 | #362 | 0.30 |
| 1930 | 354 | #356 | 0.31 |
| 1929 | 365 | #338 | 0.33 |
| 1928 | 400 | #333 | 0.35 |
| 1927 | 435 | #322 | 0.36 |
| 1926 | 439 | #317 | 0.37 |
| 1925 | 444 | #317 | 0.36 |
| 1924 | 515 | #294 | 0.41 |
| 1923 | 515 | #287 | 0.43 |
| 1922 | 511 | #289 | 0.43 |
| 1921 | 564 | #280 | 0.46 |
| 1920 | 534 | #283 | 0.45 |
| 1919 | 393 | #318 | 0.35 |
| 1918 | 378 | #330 | 0.33 |
| 1917 | 390 | #312 | 0.36 |
| 1916 | 330 | #341 | 0.32 |
| 1915 | 275 | #362 | 0.28 |
| 1914 | 167 | #410 | 0.22 |
| 1913 | 127 | #438 | 0.20 |
| 1912 | 127 | #411 | 0.23 |
| 1911 | 76 | #476 | 0.18 |
| 1910 | 66 | #502 | 0.17 |
| 1909 | 54 | #513 | 0.16 |
| 1908 | 47 | #543 | 0.14 |
| 1907 | 46 | #532 | 0.14 |
| 1906 | 51 | #482 | 0.17 |
| 1905 | 35 | #596 | 0.12 |
| 1904 | 39 | #533 | 0.14 |
| 1903 | 41 | #502 | 0.16 |
| 1902 | 35 | #555 | 0.13 |
| 1901 | 39 | #486 | 0.16 |
| 1900 | 38 | #565 | 0.13 |
| 1899 | 41 | #458 | 0.18 |
| 1898 | 38 | #508 | 0.15 |
| 1897 | 37 | #475 | 0.16 |
| 1896 | 43 | #445 | 0.18 |
| 1895 | 39 | #467 | 0.17 |
| 1894 | 35 | #482 | 0.16 |
| 1893 | 31 | #497 | 0.15 |
| 1892 | 33 | #474 | 0.16 |
| 1891 | 28 | #494 | 0.15 |
| 1890 | 25 | #533 | 0.13 |
| 1889 | 13 | #744 | 0.07 |
| 1888 | 12 | #777 | 0.07 |
| 1887 | 29 | #406 | 0.20 |
| 1886 | 17 | #551 | 0.12 |
| 1885 | 8 | #829 | 0.06 |
| 1884 | 11 | #666 | 0.09 |
| 1883 | 11 | #603 | 0.10 |
| 1882 | 12 | #555 | 0.11 |
| 1881 | 8 | #658 | 0.09 |
| 1880 | 8 | #660 | 0.09 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Margery a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Margery has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 134 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Margery: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Margery, and how old are they?
4,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 27% of the 15,791 Americans ever recorded as Margery. The median Margery alive today is 75 years old; half are between 65 and 82.
The 2020 Census counted 6,373 people named Margery (6,370 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,676 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above 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 | 1,280 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,170 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 504 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 186 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 78 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 55 |
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 Margery born?
The states with the most babies named Margery are New York, Ohio and Illinois, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 1,569 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 1,092 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 1,028 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 998 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 820 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Massachusetts | 761 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 708 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Iowa | 533 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Minnesota | 412 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 370 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Margery is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Margery is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1910 it was given 1.8 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 Margery 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 298,765 babies since 1880, Margery is the second most given (5.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 266 babies (2.3%), the third most given that year.
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 Margery
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 Margery and names like it
- Compare Margery and MarjorieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMargery peaked in 1921.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Margery since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Margery: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Margery.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Margery alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.