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Marjory

#7,743 in 2025Girls' name

Pearl, through Margery

Marjory has been given to 8,172 babies in the U.S. since 1887. In 2025 it ranked #7,743 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 294 recorded.

Babies named Marjory, 2025

1 in 237,000

Marjory over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marjory: meaning, origin, and history

Pearl, through Margery

Ancient Greek

What Marjory means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Marjory is used in English. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Margery and Margaret.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,172 girls were recorded with the name Marjory between 1887 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 294 in 1921; its best national rank was #383 in 1922.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,812 in 2020 to #7,743 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #18,184 in 2015 to #7,743 in 2025.

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 Marjory?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,743
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marjory 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 2025 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marjory. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marjorys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marjory was born before 1928 — so the typical Marjory is around 97 today.

Median birth year
1928
About 97 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
30.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,514
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 30.3% of all recorded uses (2,473).

Is Marjory 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
+1,594
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,069
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+10,441
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.80×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.8%
Peak was 1921 (294)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#383
1922

Spellings of Marjory

Marjory is not the most common spelling — Marjorie is, with 76.1% against Marjory's 2.3%.

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 Marjory is used

Across 1910–2025, Marjory was most concentrated in Kansas — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 27,767 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kansas1 in 11,111
  2. 2Iowa1 in 12,500
  3. 3Nebraska1 in 12,500
  4. 4Michigan1 in 14,286
  5. 5Indiana1 in 16,667
  6. 6New York1 in 16,667
  7. 7Ohio1 in 16,667
  8. 8South Dakota1 in 16,667

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. Marjory has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marjory around the world

Where Marjory 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.

  • Scotland
    1974–1984
    #547
    in 1984
  • France
    1964–2016
    #5,601
    in 2016
  • Canada
    1992–1996
    #1,815
    in 1996
  • South Australia
    1944–1983
    #686
    in 1983

Popularity data from National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Marjory

People whose public names include Marjory, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Marjory in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Marjory. Linked forms have their own page here.

MargorieMarjorie

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Marjory by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,743
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,069
Best rank ever
#383
1922
Peak year
1921
294 that year
First recorded
1887
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,172
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Marjory

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

MarcelaMarileeMariannMargretMariyahMarlenaMarandaMarielaMarylouMarloweMarylinMargeryMarleenMargauxMartinaMarielMaryleeMaryjoMarylynMarlynMarybethMariselaMarnieMarleigh

Names with a curve like Marjory

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Marjory, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AleneAlleneLorineDorrisJaunitaGeneMargaretteFlorineDorthaThedaVerniceHarriette

Sibling names for Marjory

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

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