Margi
Margi was last recorded in 1984, when 5 babies were given it; 290 Americans have been recorded with it between 1938 and 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Margi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Margi?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,468, in 1984; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1961, the peak
Margi peaked in 1961, when 23 girls were given it, #2,580 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 5 | #11,468 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,764 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,770 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,003 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,254 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,108 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,384 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 12 | #4,014 | 6.3 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,565 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,107 | 8.6 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 23 | #2,580 | 11.4 |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,298 | 7.4 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,828 | 8.9 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,547 | 10.4 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,240 | 6.8 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,614 | 6.0 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,020 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,620 | 5.7 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,300 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,244 | 4.4 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,735 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,087 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 13 | #3,001 | 7.3 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,264 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,574 | 6.0 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,052 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,149 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Margi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Margi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Margi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Margi, and how old are they?
An estimated 229 Americans named Margi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 62 and 70. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 620 people named Margi (616 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 248 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Margi rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
How common is the spelling Margi?
Margi is a less common spelling of Margie: SSA has recorded 290 Margi and 106,407 Margie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 139,938 babies since 1880, Margi is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 557 babies recorded by SSA was a Margi (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 Margi
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 Margi and names like it
- Compare Margi and MargieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sMargi peaked in 1961.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Margi.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Margi alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.