Margorie — girls' name
1,026 babies named Margorie in U.S. Social Security records since 1907, with the highest year being 1925. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
30% of everyone ever named Margorie was born in this single decade.
39 babies were named Margorie in 1925 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Margorie
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,026 babies named Margorie between 1907 and 1996, spanning 90 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Margorie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1996. The name reached its historical peak in 1925, when 39 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Margorie performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 306 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Margorie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Margorie in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Margorie 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 1,026 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.
Margorie at a glance
Last recorded 1996Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Margorie popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1996–1907
- Peak year (1925)
- 39
- Annual births at peak — across 90 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1996.
1,026 total births across 90 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1925 with 39 births in a single year.
Margorie by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 306 births that decade — 30% of Margorie's all-time total
Margorie decade highlights
- Peak decade 306 births
- Runner-up 186 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Margorie's strongest decade
306 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 30% of all-time use.
Margorie by state
Where Margorie concentrates geographically — total births since 1907
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Illinois | | 7 | 0.7% |
7 of 1,026 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Illinois 0.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Illinois accounts for 0.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1907–1996 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.