In 2025, 17 US girls were named Margie, making it the 6,730th most common girls’ name of the year, down 413 places from #6,317 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 19 girls named Margie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #95, reached in 1933. The most girls given the name in a single year was 2,868, in 1925. For comparison, it was #6,630 in 2015 and #184 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Margie in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 31 babies with the name. In all, 106,407 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 25,606 babies named Margie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 181 US girls were named Margie; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 27. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,545 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Margy, Margi and Margia are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Marjorie.