Meaning not yet researched.
Margery: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #280 in 1921.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #280 in 1921; #14,304 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Margery in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#14,304 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1921, at #280.
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Margery: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 girls in 2025. Peak: #280 in 1921 · most girls in one year: 564 (1921).
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Margery, making it the 14,304th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #280, reached in 1921. That year also had the most girls given the name: 564. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #622 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Margery in 134 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 8 babies. In all, 15,791 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 4,722 babies named Margery.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 48 US girls were named Margery; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 11. In 2025 that was about 1 in 267,878 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Marjorie (274,611 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Margerie, Margory and Margary are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Margerie (118), Margory (63), Margary (37), Margaery (10), Margeree (5), Marguery (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Margery in the open dataset we use.
Margery is listed as a nickname for Margaret, Margaretta, Marge.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,304 | — | — |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,858 | — | — |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,813 | — | — |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,304 | — | — |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,717 | — | — |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,832 | — | — |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,046 | — | — |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,820 | — | — |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,820 | — | — |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,731 | — | — |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,672 | — | — |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,982 | — | — |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,984 | — | — |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,957 | — | — |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,400 | — | — |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,021 | — | — |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,494 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,111 | — | — |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,277 | — | — |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,282 | — | — |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,320 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,222 | — | — |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,840 | — | — |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,440 | — | — |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,266 | — | — |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,780 | — | — |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,594 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,155 | — | — |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,772 | — | — |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,428 | — | — |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,330 | — | — |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,117 | — | — |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,099 | — | — |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,571 | — | — |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,737 | — | — |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,583 | — | — |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,562 | — | — |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,151 | — | — |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,855 | — | — |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,656 | — | — |
| 1973 | 34 | #2,289 | — | — |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,796 | — | — |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,917 | — | — |
| 1970 | 43 | #1,974 | — | — |
| 1969 | 39 | #2,017 | — | — |
| 1968 | 46 | #1,742 | — | — |
| 1967 | 52 | #1,578 | — | — |
| 1966 | 66 | #1,343 | — | — |
| 1965 | 77 | #1,236 | — | — |
| 1964 | 74 | #1,305 | — | — |
| 1963 | 84 | #1,195 | — | — |
| 1962 | 88 | #1,174 | — | — |
| 1961 | 103 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 1960 | 82 | #1,208 | — | — |
| 1959 | 90 | #1,128 | — | — |
| 1958 | 113 | #976 | — | — |
| 1957 | 118 | #949 | — | — |
| 1956 | 144 | #824 | — | — |
| 1955 | 138 | #823 | — | — |
| 1954 | 148 | #770 | — | — |
| 1953 | 198 | #634 | — | — |
| 1952 | 204 | #613 | — | — |
| 1951 | 170 | #673 | — | — |
| 1950 | 184 | #622 | — | — |
| 1949 | 220 | #562 | — | — |
| 1948 | 229 | #547 | — | — |
| 1947 | 302 | #473 | — | — |
| 1946 | 215 | #539 | — | — |
| 1945 | 216 | #495 | — | — |
| 1944 | 242 | #463 | — | — |
| 1943 | 230 | #489 | — | — |
| 1942 | 249 | #467 | — | — |
| 1941 | 222 | #471 | — | — |
| 1940 | 212 | #461 | — | — |
| 1939 | 210 | #464 | — | — |
| 1938 | 219 | #454 | — | — |
| 1937 | 224 | #440 | — | — |
| 1936 | 217 | #439 | — | — |
| 1935 | 254 | #405 | — | — |
| 1934 | 277 | #385 | — | — |
| 1933 | 297 | #370 | — | — |
| 1932 | 316 | #359 | — | — |
| 1931 | 317 | #362 | — | — |
| 1930 | 354 | #356 | — | — |
| 1929 | 365 | #338 | — | — |
| 1928 | 400 | #333 | — | — |
| 1927 | 435 | #322 | — | — |
| 1926 | 439 | #317 | — | — |
| 1925 | 444 | #317 | — | — |
| 1924 | 515 | #294 | — | — |
| 1923 | 515 | #287 | — | — |
| 1922 | 511 | #289 | — | — |
| 1921 | 564 | #280 | — | — |
| 1920 | 534 | #283 | — | — |
| 1919 | 393 | #318 | — | — |
| 1918 | 378 | #330 | — | — |
| 1917 | 390 | #312 | — | — |
| 1916 | 330 | #341 | — | — |
| 1915 | 275 | #362 | — | — |
| 1914 | 167 | #410 | — | — |
| 1913 | 127 | #438 | — | — |
| 1912 | 127 | #411 | — | — |
| 1911 | 76 | #476 | — | — |
| 1910 | 66 | #502 | — | — |
| 1909 | 54 | #513 | — | — |
| 1908 | 47 | #543 | — | — |
| 1907 | 46 | #532 | — | — |
| 1906 | 51 | #482 | — | — |
| 1905 | 35 | #596 | — | — |
| 1904 | 39 | #533 | — | — |
| 1903 | 41 | #502 | — | — |
| 1902 | 35 | #555 | — | — |
| 1901 | 39 | #486 | — | — |
| 1900 | 38 | #565 | — | — |
| 1899 | 41 | #458 | — | — |
| 1898 | 38 | #508 | — | — |
| 1897 | 37 | #475 | — | — |
| 1896 | 43 | #445 | — | — |
| 1895 | 39 | #467 | — | — |
| 1894 | 35 | #482 | — | — |
| 1893 | 31 | #497 | — | — |
| 1892 | 33 | #474 | — | — |
| 1891 | 28 | #494 | — | — |
| 1890 | 25 | #533 | — | — |
| 1889 | 13 | #744 | — | — |
| 1888 | 12 | #777 | — | — |
| 1887 | 29 | #406 | — | — |
| 1886 | 17 | #551 | — | — |
| 1885 | 8 | #829 | — | — |
| 1884 | 11 | #666 | — | — |
| 1883 | 11 | #603 | — | — |
| 1882 | 12 | #555 | — | — |
| 1881 | 8 | #658 | — | — |
| 1880 | 8 | #660 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).