Margery — girls' name

What the Data Says About Margery

The Social Security Administration has registered 15,785 babies named Margery between 1880 and 2022, spanning 143 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Margery currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1921, when 564 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Margery performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 4,722 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Margery shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 1,569 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Margery in 44 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Margery 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 15,785 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.