Margy
Margy was last recorded in 1969, when 6 babies were given it; 1,525 Americans have been recorded with it between 1911 and 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Margy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Margy?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,126, in 1969; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
74 babies in 1929, the peak
Margy peaked in 1929, when 74 girls were given it, #825 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 6 | #7,126 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,461 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,442 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,599 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,604 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,284 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,943 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,109 | 8.6 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,800 | 9.9 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,616 | 6.4 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 22 | #2,491 | 10.9 |
| 1958 | 24 | #2,356 | 11.9 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,599 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,442 | 6.5 |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,380 | 11.3 |
| 1954 | 17 | #2,754 | 8.8 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,603 | 5.8 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,634 | 9.2 |
| 1951 | 25 | #2,000 | 13.9 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,623 | 9.3 |
| 1949 | 27 | #1,863 | 15.8 |
| 1948 | 33 | #1,635 | 19.4 |
| 1947 | 22 | #2,123 | 12.4 |
| 1946 | 25 | #1,835 | 15.9 |
| 1945 | 26 | #1,639 | 19.9 |
| 1944 | 29 | #1,533 | 21.9 |
| 1943 | 44 | #1,220 | 31.5 |
| 1942 | 49 | #1,133 | 36.3 |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,781 | 17.4 |
| 1940 | 29 | #1,430 | 25.4 |
| 1939 | 37 | #1,211 | 33.7 |
| 1938 | 25 | #1,532 | 22.7 |
| 1937 | 40 | #1,139 | 37.6 |
| 1936 | 38 | #1,158 | 36.5 |
| 1935 | 29 | #1,373 | 27.7 |
| 1934 | 42 | #1,093 | 40.2 |
| 1933 | 39 | #1,131 | 38.7 |
| 1932 | 36 | #1,205 | 33.7 |
| 1931 | 36 | #1,211 | 33.8 |
| 1930 | 57 | #975 | 50.6 |
| 1929 | 74 | #825 | 66.3 |
| 1928 | 46 | #1,126 | 39.9 |
| 1927 | 55 | #1,039 | 46.1 |
| 1926 | 41 | #1,211 | 34.6 |
| 1925 | 36 | #1,337 | 29.6 |
| 1924 | 44 | #1,199 | 35.2 |
| 1923 | 53 | #1,048 | 43.9 |
| 1922 | 41 | #1,219 | 34.1 |
| 1921 | 36 | #1,326 | 29.2 |
| 1920 | 24 | #1,731 | 20.0 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,595 | 11.5 |
| 1918 | 19 | #2,002 | 16.4 |
| 1917 | 27 | #1,461 | 25.0 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,444 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,928 | 17.3 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,461 | 7.9 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,266 | 14.4 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,714 | 12.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Margy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Margy has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Margy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Margy, and how old are they?
An estimated 490 Americans named Margy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (32% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 68 and 84. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 828 people named Margy (827 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 668 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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.
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 Margy?
Margy is a less common spelling of Margie: SSA has recorded 1,525 Margy and 106,407 Margie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 139,938 babies since 1880, Margy is the fourth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 557 babies recorded by SSA was a Margy (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 Margy
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 Margy and names like it
- Compare Margy and MargieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMargy peaked in 1929.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Margy since 1910.
- The top names of 1929The year the most babies were named Margy.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Margy alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.