Margerie

Girls' name

Pearl

Margerie has been given to 118 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1917, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Margerie, 1947

1 in 720,000

Margerie 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Margerie: meaning, origin, and history

Pearl

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Margerie means

Margerie means “pearl”, associated with margarīta.

Origin, language, and formation

Margerie is used in Norman.

Margerie comes through Latin Margarita and Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Margery.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 118 girls were recorded with the name Margerie between 1914 and 1947. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1917; its best national rank was #2,782 in 1914.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Margerie?

Margerie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1947, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1947: 1 in 720,000; 5 of 3,602,100 births
Among girls only: 1 in 355,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1947: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 499,358 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Margerie 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 1947 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 499,358 children born in 1947 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Margerie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Margeries were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Margerie was born before 1924 — so the typical Margerie is around 101 today.

Median birth year: 1924; About 101 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 41.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 54.2%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 41.5% of all recorded uses (49).

Is Margerie 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 1917 (11)
Years since peak: 108; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 32.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,782; 1914

Spellings of Margerie

Margerie is not the most common spelling — Marjorie is, with 54.7% against Margerie's 0.02%.

Marjorie54.7%274,017
Margie21.2%106,004
Marguerite18.8%94,022
Margery3.2%15,791
Margarite0.38%1,920
Margurite0.35%1,745
Margene0.34%1,687
Malerie0.25%1,261

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.

Margerie around the world

Where Margerie ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

France
1974–2003
#5,437
in 2003

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Margerie 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: #2,782; 1914
Peak year: 1917; 11 that year
First recorded: 1914
Last recorded: 1947
All-time count: 118
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Margerie

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

Marjarie Margarie Maryorie Margrie Margorie Marieliz Mariyana Marializ Marliyah Marlayah Margalit Marianny Marrie Marielly Marsali Maripaz Maritta Marialy Marlette Marciana Marinette Mariany Marybella Markella

Sibling names for Margerie

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

Albina Nelle Orpha Antonette Harriette Winnifred Johnie Dovie

For a brother

Regis Rosario Lyman Winfield Dorsey Granville Abe Isadore

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