How Many People Are Named Margie?

40,702

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

About 1 in 8,397 people in the US has this name

Based on 106,407 babies named Margie in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,050

πŸ’Ž Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#539

See the top 100

Peak Year

1925

2,882 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

πŸ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: MAHR-jee
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Diminutive of MARGARET.

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

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.8%
Male
0.2%

Almost all of the babies given the name Margie (99.8%) were girls.

πŸ‘₯ Age Distribution

The average person named Margie alive today is about 72 years old, and 85% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 64 and 82 in 2025.

Under 30 698
1.7%
30 to 59 5,516
13.6%
60 and over 34,488
84.7%

πŸ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Margie first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1925, to 2,882 babies. In 2025, 17 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

πŸ† Rank History

Margie never made the top 10 girls' names. Its best rank was #95, in 1933, and it was in the top 100 in 4 years between 1922 and 1935. In 2025 it ranked #6,729.

Girls
Rank in 2025#6,729
Best rank#95 (1933)
Years in the top 1004 (1922 to 1935)
Rank in its biggest decade#109 in the 1920s

πŸ“ State-Wise Distribution

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

More people named Margie were born in Texas than in any other state: about 4,501 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Margie was given about 2 times as often in Arkansas, South Carolina and Texas.

Texas 4,501
California 2,817
North Carolina 2,098
Georgia 2,017
Ohio 1,571
Tennessee 1,498
New York 1,478
Kentucky 1,476
Alabama 1,476
South Carolina 1,462
Illinois 1,458
Louisiana 1,376
Mississippi 1,345
Pennsylvania 1,295
Florida 1,024
Virginia 989
Missouri 962
Arkansas 946
Michigan 935
Oklahoma 795
Indiana 724
West Virginia 550
Wisconsin 489
New Jersey 456
Washington 440
Arizona 433
Minnesota 415
New Mexico 407
Colorado 375
Maryland 365
Iowa 365
Kansas 324
Utah 263
Oregon 227
Nebraska 227
Montana 131
North Dakota 122
South Dakota 112
Massachusetts 100
District of Columbia 96
Idaho 84
Connecticut 37
Alaska 23
Wyoming 12
Delaware 10
Nevada 5
Rhode Island 4

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