Marjory
Marjory was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,743 among girls’ names; 8,172 Americans have been recorded with it since 1887 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,190 Americans named Marjory and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (27% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 58 and 82.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marjory by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marjory mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Marjory is “a female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Margery.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marjory?
#7,743 among girls’ names, 2025
Marjory rose from #18,184 in 2015 to #7,743 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 8.7 per million.
294 babies in 1921, the peak
Marjory peaked in 1921, when 294 girls were given it, #392 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,743 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,337 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,541 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,687 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,012 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,812 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,057 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,119 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,718 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,468 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (135)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #18,184 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,786 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,415 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,184 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,552 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,227 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,519 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,244 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,303 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,137 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,493 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,417 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,059 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,964 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,325 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,650 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,115 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,411 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,743 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,313 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,899 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,755 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,355 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,791 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,221 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,133 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,497 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,326 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,168 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,333 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,570 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,623 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,163 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,079 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,383 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,404 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,760 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,711 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,150 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,578 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,357 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,599 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,168 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 23 | #2,809 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,837 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,607 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,348 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 37 | #1,899 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 39 | #1,907 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 30 | #2,194 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 41 | #1,800 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 36 | #1,938 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 33 | #1,997 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 46 | #1,606 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 48 | #1,550 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 58 | #1,394 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 59 | #1,355 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 72 | #1,180 | 0.04 |
| 1954 | 67 | #1,221 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 75 | #1,126 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 87 | #1,010 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 79 | #1,046 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 88 | #965 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 90 | #938 | 0.05 |
| 1948 | 94 | #899 | 0.06 |
| 1947 | 119 | #800 | 0.07 |
| 1946 | 116 | #762 | 0.07 |
| 1945 | 67 | #935 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 101 | #759 | 0.08 |
| 1943 | 92 | #804 | 0.07 |
| 1942 | 99 | #760 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 91 | #749 | 0.08 |
| 1940 | 110 | #662 | 0.10 |
| 1939 | 97 | #694 | 0.09 |
| 1938 | 135 | #595 | 0.12 |
| 1937 | 106 | #663 | 0.10 |
| 1936 | 137 | #560 | 0.13 |
| 1935 | 127 | #571 | 0.12 |
| 1934 | 157 | #515 | 0.15 |
| 1933 | 132 | #556 | 0.13 |
| 1932 | 155 | #526 | 0.15 |
| 1931 | 138 | #558 | 0.13 |
| 1930 | 187 | #488 | 0.17 |
| 1929 | 212 | #453 | 0.19 |
| 1928 | 195 | #494 | 0.17 |
| 1927 | 205 | #489 | 0.17 |
| 1926 | 216 | #470 | 0.18 |
| 1925 | 255 | #431 | 0.21 |
| 1924 | 283 | #411 | 0.23 |
| 1923 | 283 | #399 | 0.23 |
| 1922 | 290 | #383 | 0.24 |
| 1921 | 294 | #392 | 0.24 |
| 1920 | 240 | #434 | 0.20 |
| 1919 | 232 | #432 | 0.21 |
| 1918 | 251 | #415 | 0.22 |
| 1917 | 226 | #427 | 0.21 |
| 1916 | 179 | #475 | 0.17 |
| 1915 | 179 | #461 | 0.18 |
| 1914 | 136 | #468 | 0.18 |
| 1913 | 73 | #608 | 0.12 |
| 1912 | 70 | #579 | 0.13 |
| 1911 | 51 | #600 | 0.12 |
| 1910 | 43 | #653 | 0.11 |
| 1909 | 27 | #785 | 0.08 |
| 1908 | 32 | #689 | 0.10 |
| 1907 | 20 | #863 | 0.06 |
| 1906 | 22 | #784 | 0.07 |
| 1905 | 21 | #818 | 0.07 |
| 1904 | 18 | #869 | 0.07 |
| 1903 | 17 | #853 | 0.06 |
| 1902 | 16 | #894 | 0.06 |
| 1901 | 17 | #814 | 0.07 |
| 1900 | 26 | #718 | 0.09 |
| 1899 | 16 | #825 | 0.07 |
| 1898 | 18 | #806 | 0.07 |
| 1897 | 17 | #779 | 0.07 |
| 1896 | 24 | #646 | 0.10 |
| 1895 | 11 | #1,031 | 0.05 |
| 1894 | 15 | #806 | 0.07 |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,138 | 0.04 |
| 1892 | 14 | #822 | 0.07 |
| 1891 | 16 | #687 | 0.09 |
| 1890 | 19 | #612 | 0.10 |
| 1889 | 14 | #708 | 0.08 |
| 1887 | 7 | #1,003 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marjory a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marjory has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 135 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marjory: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marjory, and how old are they?
2,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 27% of the 8,172 Americans ever recorded as Marjory. The median Marjory alive today is 73 years old; half are between 58 and 82.
The 2020 Census counted 3,473 people named Marjory (3,465 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,814 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 585 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 951 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 271 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 133 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 102 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 121 |
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 Marjory born?
The states with the most babies named Marjory are New York, Ohio and Michigan, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 746 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 471 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 442 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 398 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 374 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 352 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 226 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Iowa | 178 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Massachusetts | 175 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Wisconsin | 169 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Marjory is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marjory is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1910 it was given 1.4 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 Marjory 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 282,938 babies since 1880, Marjory is the second most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 260 babies (5.4%), again the second most given.
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 Marjory
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 Marjory and names like it
- Compare Marjory and MarjorieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMarjory peaked in 1921.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marjory since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Marjory.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Marjory alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.