How Many People Are Named Margery?

4,475

people named Margery are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 76,376 people in the US has this name

Based on 15,791 babies named Margery in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,977

πŸ’ŽπŸ’Ž Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#2,243

See the top 100

Peak Year

1921

564 births

Trend

β†’

Stable (last 10 years)

πŸ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: MAHR-jΙ™-ree
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Medieval English form of MARGARET.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Margery in English. Counting Margery and these spellings together, about 78,436 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Margery in the records were girls.

πŸ‘₯ Age Distribution

The average person named Margery alive today is about 71 years old, and 83% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 64 and 82 in 2025.

Under 30 142
3.2%
30 to 59 616
13.8%
60 and over 3,718
83.1%

πŸ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Margery first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1921, to 564 babies. In 2025, 6 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

πŸ† Rank History

Margery has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #280, in 1921. In 2025 it ranked #14,299.

Girls
Rank in 2025#14,299
Best rank#280 (1921)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#308 in the 1920s

πŸ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Margery alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Margery were born in New York than in any other state: about 523 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Margery was given 2.5 times as often in Iowa, 2.1 times in Massachusetts and 2 times in Washington.

New York 523
Pennsylvania 313
California 268
Ohio 253
Massachusetts 242
Illinois 208
Michigan 173
New Jersey 130
Wisconsin 96
Iowa 89
Minnesota 79
Connecticut 60
Indiana 53
Texas 50
Washington 46
Missouri 31
Maryland 17
Nebraska 16
Louisiana 15
District of Columbia 14
Virginia 9
Kansas 9
Florida 8
Tennessee 6
Montana 6
Oregon 4
Maine 4
Colorado 4
Alabama 4
Rhode Island 3
North Carolina 2
Kentucky 2
Utah 2
Georgia 1
Oklahoma 1
South Dakota 1
North Dakota 1
West Virginia 1

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