Margie
Margie was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,729 among girls’ names; 106,407 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 39,300 Americans named Margie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (37% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 65 and 83.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Margie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Margie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Margie is “a pet form of the female given name Margaret.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Margie?
#6,729 among girls’ names, 2025
Margie fell from #6,628 in 2015 to #6,729 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born held at 10.6 per million.
2,882 babies in 1925, the peak
Margie peaked in 1925, when 2,882 babies were given it (2,868 girls, #99 among girls’ names). The 17 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,729 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,314 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,944 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,573 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,310 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,813 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,729 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,991 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,141 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,252 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,628 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,587 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 15 | #8,024 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,343 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,470 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,899 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,722 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,682 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,049 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,425 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,543 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,483 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,482 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,773 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,110 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,374 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,758 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,049 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,673 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,333 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,252 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 56 | #2,333 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 66 | #2,078 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 72 | #1,934 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 87 | #1,692 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 89 | #1,659 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 76 | #1,776 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 92 | #1,483 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 101 | #1,355 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 92 | #1,399 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 102 | #1,316 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 104 | #1,241 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 120 | #1,124 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 159 | #940 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 148 | #989 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 167 | #906 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 183 | #852 | 0.11 |
| 1978 | 182 | #823 | 0.12 |
| 1977 | 165 | #875 | 0.11 |
| 1976 | 173 | #805 | 0.12 |
| 1975 | 202 | #728 | 0.14 |
| 1974 | 237 | #644 | 0.16 |
| 1973 | 246 | #622 | 0.17 |
| 1972 | 284 | #579 | 0.19 |
| 1971 | 378 | #502 | 0.23 |
| 1970 | 393 | #506 | 0.22 |
| 1969 | 409 | #477 | 0.24 |
| 1968 | 425 | #465 | 0.26 |
| 1967 | 492 | #420 | 0.30 |
| 1966 | 552 | #386 | 0.33 |
| 1965 | 695 | #347 | 0.39 |
| 1964 | 883 | #312 | 0.47 |
| 1963 | 1,041 | #282 | 0.54 |
| 1962 | 1,344 | #236 | 0.68 |
| 1961 | 1,146 | #266 | 0.57 |
| 1960 | 1,174 | #260 | 0.58 |
| 1959 | 1,267 | #244 | 0.63 |
| 1958 | 1,292 | #235 | 0.64 |
| 1957 | 1,286 | #237 | 0.63 |
| 1956 | 1,270 | #231 | 0.63 |
| 1955 | 1,278 | #227 | 0.65 |
| 1954 | 1,488 | #207 | 0.77 |
| 1953 | 1,452 | #206 | 0.77 |
| 1952 | 1,409 | #204 | 0.76 |
| 1951 | 1,461 | #198 | 0.81 |
| 1950 | 1,470 | #184 | 0.86 |
| 1949 | 1,690 | #169 | 1.0 |
| 1948 | 1,927 | #148 | 1.1 |
| 1947 | 2,169 | #139 | 1.2 |
| 1946 | 1,946 | #138 | 1.2 |
| 1945 | 1,764 | #138 | 1.3 |
| 1944 | 2,005 | #130 | 1.5 |
| 1943 | 2,148 | #128 | 1.5 |
| 1942 | 2,196 | #126 | 1.6 |
| 1941 | 2,149 | #122 | 1.8 |
| 1940 | 2,267 | #114 | 2.0 |
| 1939 | 2,266 | #113 | 2.1 |
| 1938 | 2,425 | #109 | 2.2 |
| 1937 | 2,287 | #111 | 2.1 |
| 1936 | 2,342 | #102 | 2.3 |
| 1935 | 2,368 | #100 | 2.3 |
| 1934 | 2,373 | #103 | 2.3 |
| 1933 | 2,409 | #95 | 2.4 |
| 1932 | 2,424 | #102 | 2.3 |
| 1931 | 2,206 | #107 | 2.1 |
| 1930 | 2,242 | #112 | 2.0 |
| 1929 | 2,336 | #108 | 2.1 |
| 1928 | 2,437 | #108 | 2.1 |
| 1927 | 2,681 | #104 | 2.2 |
| 1926 | 2,714 | #103 | 2.3 |
| 1925 | 2,868 | #99 | 2.4 |
| 1924 | 2,832 | #102 | 2.3 |
| 1923 | 2,724 | #101 | 2.3 |
| 1922 | 2,854 | #100 | 2.4 |
| 1921 | 2,696 | #106 | 2.2 |
| 1920 | 1,353 | #168 | 1.1 |
| 1919 | 1,158 | #177 | 1.0 |
| 1918 | 1,064 | #188 | 0.92 |
| 1917 | 951 | #193 | 0.88 |
| 1916 | 915 | #195 | 0.88 |
| 1915 | 740 | #218 | 0.75 |
| 1914 | 588 | #213 | 0.77 |
| 1913 | 423 | #237 | 0.68 |
| 1912 | 356 | #239 | 0.64 |
| 1911 | 271 | #239 | 0.65 |
| 1910 | 305 | #214 | 0.77 |
| 1909 | 286 | #201 | 0.82 |
| 1908 | 243 | #222 | 0.73 |
| 1907 | 228 | #220 | 0.72 |
| 1906 | 194 | #226 | 0.66 |
| 1905 | 190 | #226 | 0.65 |
| 1904 | 199 | #216 | 0.72 |
| 1903 | 199 | #213 | 0.76 |
| 1902 | 187 | #217 | 0.71 |
| 1901 | 165 | #222 | 0.69 |
| 1900 | 206 | #217 | 0.69 |
| 1899 | 117 | #265 | 0.50 |
| 1898 | 123 | #276 | 0.48 |
| 1897 | 114 | #268 | 0.49 |
| 1896 | 130 | #248 | 0.55 |
| 1895 | 98 | #285 | 0.42 |
| 1894 | 110 | #261 | 0.49 |
| 1893 | 106 | #261 | 0.50 |
| 1892 | 91 | #283 | 0.43 |
| 1891 | 67 | #309 | 0.36 |
| 1890 | 78 | #284 | 0.41 |
| 1889 | 79 | #266 | 0.44 |
| 1888 | 69 | #282 | 0.39 |
| 1887 | 58 | #282 | 0.40 |
| 1886 | 49 | #296 | 0.34 |
| 1885 | 49 | #288 | 0.37 |
| 1884 | 37 | #325 | 0.29 |
| 1883 | 31 | #322 | 0.28 |
| 1882 | 21 | #397 | 0.19 |
| 1881 | 32 | #281 | 0.35 |
| 1880 | 31 | #279 | 0.34 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Margie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Margie has been given almost only to girls: 403 boys in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Margie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Margie, and how old are they?
39,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 37% of the 106,407 Americans ever recorded as Margie. The median Margie alive today is 74 years old; half are between 65 and 83.
The 2020 Census counted 42,196 people named Margie (42,125 women and girls, 71 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 50,290 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 11,700 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 20,500 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,760 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,390 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 441 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 223 |
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 Margie born?
The states with the most babies named Margie are Texas, North Carolina and Georgia, with 22% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 11,091 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| North Carolina | 6,339 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Georgia | 4,902 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| California | 4,873 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Kentucky | 4,591 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Alabama | 4,326 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Tennessee | 4,252 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Ohio | 4,137 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 3,830 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| South Carolina | 3,812 | not ranked | 1.8× |
Where Margie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Margie is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 1.9 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 Margie 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, Margie is the most given (76% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 557 babies (3.1%), the second 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 Margie
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 Margie and names like it
- Compare Margie and MargoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMargie peaked in 1925.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Margie since 1910.
- The top names of 1925The year the most babies were named Margie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Margie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.