Margaery

Girls' name

Pearl, through Margery

Margaery has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 2019. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2019, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Margaery, 2023

1 in 663,000

Margaery over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Margaery: meaning, origin, and history

Pearl, through Margery

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Margaery means

Margaery belongs to the name family reached through Margaery → Margery → Margaret. Its meaning is “pearl”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Attested since at least the 1770s as a variant of Margery, from Margaret. Popularized in the modern era by the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin.

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Origin, language, and formation

Margaery is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Margery and Margaret.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Margaery between 2019 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2019; its best national rank was #16,722 in 2023.

How common is Margaery?

Margaery had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only: 1 in 321,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 459,528 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Margaery sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Margaery. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Margaerys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Margaery was born before 2019 — so the typical Margaery is around 6 today.

Median birth year: 2019; About 6 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 10; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Margaery rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2019 (5)
Years since peak: 6; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #16,722; 2023

Spellings of Margaery

Margaery is not the most common spelling — Margery is, with 91.8% against Margaery's 0.06%.

Margery91.8%15,791
Margert4.6%796
Margart3.5%598
Margaery0.06%10

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Margaery by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #16,722; 2023
Peak year: 2019; 5 that year
First recorded: 2019
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 10
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Margaery

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Marguery Mariamu Mariaflor Marciela Marelys Marsana Margarat Margreet Marjoree Margrate Marthell Margreta Marcello Marlenea Marlaena Mareesha Marielos Martiqua Markeyia Marleaux Mariami Marieth Maravene Marylois

Sibling names for Margaery

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Keren Leena Nala Kairi Emani Kamilah Elliot Royalty

For a brother

Joziah Ishaan Abdiel Khalid Torin Kamryn Leighton Simeon

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