Margery
Margery is a girl's name that peaked in 1921, when it was the 279th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 13,208th. About 4,500 Margerys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 74.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Margery
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 15,791
- Estimated living today
- 4,500
- Median age today
- 74
- Peak year
- 1921
- Best rank
- 279th
- Rank in 2025
- 13,208th
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Margerys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 15,791 babies given the name since 1880, about 4,500 are alive — 28 in every hundred. Roughly 60 of them are children and 3,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1951 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
From Old French; ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Margerys
- Margery Allingham (1904–1966)English writer of detective fiction, editor
- Margery Kempe (1373–1438)British Christian mystic and author
- Margery Corbett Ashby (1882–1981)British activist
- Margery Sharp (1905–1991)English writer
- Margery Mason (1913–2014)English actress
People named Margery with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Margery is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Margery is most concentrated in Iowa (3.5×), Massachusetts (2.7×), Nebraska (2.3×), Ohio (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1921
The most popular girls’ names the year Margery peaked:
Margery elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Margery | 20 | 2,907th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Margery against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.