Marjie

Girls' name

Pearl, through Marjorie

Marjie has been given to 972 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 1924, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Marjie, 1982

1 in 702,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marjie: meaning, origin, and history

Pearl, through Marjorie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marjie means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Marjie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marjorie, Margery and Margaret.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 972 girls were recorded with the name Marjie between 1914 and 1982. Its highest annual count was 34 in 1924; its best national rank was #1,408 in 1929.

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 Marjie?

Marjie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1982, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1982: 1 in 702,000; 5 of 3,507,638 births
Among girls only: 1 in 339,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1982: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 486,263 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Marjie 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 1982 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 486,263 children born in 1982 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marjie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marjies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marjie was born before 1939 — so the typical Marjie is around 86 today.

Median birth year: 1939; About 86 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 25.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 19.9%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 297; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 25.5% of all recorded uses (248).

Is Marjie 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 1924 (34)
Years since peak: 101; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 49.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,408; 1929

Spellings of Marjie

Marjie is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 22.3% against Marjie's 0.04%.

Maria22.3%566,111
Marie21.3%540,077
Marjorie10.8%274,017
Carrie10.5%266,350
Marcia5.3%133,320
Mattie5.2%133,079
Maggie4.8%123,078
Margie4.2%106,004

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.

Where Marjie is used

Across 1910–2025, Marjie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,178,904 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Marjie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marjie 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: #1,408; 1929
Peak year: 1924; 34 that year
First recorded: 1914
Last recorded: 1982
All-time count: 972
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Marjie

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

Marine Maraya Marily Mareli Marlei Martie Marena Mariko Maryan Markie Marlin Marlow Marlynn Mariska Maryah Maram Marilu Marelyn Marnita Marlina Marilla Marit Mariely Mariya

Sibling names for Marjie

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

Rosina Kattie Lavon Blanch Jaunita Vernell Dorris Leonora

For a brother

Alvis Eldridge Lacy Delmer Wilton Elwin Domenick Hosea

Explore around Marjie

Top names of 1924, Marjie's peak year The 1920s in full Other names that peaked in 1929 Girls' names starting with M