Margery
Margery is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 280th, in 1921.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1921564 births
- Best rank
- #280in 1921
- Since 1880
- 15,785people given the name
The story in the numbers
15,785 girls have been named Margery in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 564 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 564 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 30%. It has spent 79 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Margery | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 129 | |
| 1890s | 350 | |
| 1900s | 425 | |
| 1910s | 2,329 | |
| 1920s | 4,722 | |
| 1930s | 2,685 | |
| 1940s | 2,337 | |
| 1950s | 1,507 | |
| 1960s | 711 | |
| 1970s | 247 | |
| 1980s | 150 | |
| 1990s | 86 | |
| 2000s | 58 | |
| 2010s | 32 | |
| 2020s | 17 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Margery was the 280th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Margery
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Marjorypeak 1921
- Marianpeak 1924
- Virginiapeak 1922
- Wildapeak 1926
- Marjoriepeak 1921
- Lavernapeak 1920
- Alenepeak 1920
- Ardellpeak 1922
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.