Margorie
Feminine · “a pearl”
Margorie moves two letters in a name that already had two spellings competing. Marjorie and Margery have both been in English use since the Middle Ages, the j and the g were doing the same job, and this version transposes the letters of one of them — producing a third spelling of a name that was already unable to make up its mind.
How old is the name Margorie?
Margorie first appears in US birth records in 1907 — 118 years ago. The typical Margorie alive today was born around 1933, making them about 92 years old. About 400 people named Margorie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Margorie most popular?
Margorie peaked in 1925, reaching #1252 nationally. See the whole 1925 chart.
Where it comes from
From a Greek word for a pearl gives Margaret to Margorie
The story of Margorie
Marjory Stoneman Douglas was a newspaperwoman in Miami who wrote a book about the Everglades at a point when everybody who mattered regarded them as a swamp to be drained. She began it with the sentence that changed the argument — that there are no other Everglades in the world — and gave the place a name that has stuck: a river of grass, moving, not stagnant. She was in her fifties then and spent the next half-century defending it, still testifying at hearings in her nineties, and lived to a hundred and eight.
Meaning
a pearl, at several removes
Behind the whole family stands Margaret, which came into Europe from a Greek word for a pearl and probably before that from Persian. Medieval English produced Margery from it, French produced Marguerite, and the j and g spellings have been alternating ever since because the sound they write is the same. This version transposes the g and the o, which changes nothing audible and produces a spelling that most readers take for a slip.
How the name formed
- a Greek word for a pearl gives Margaret
- medieval English produces Margery
- the j and g spellings alternate for six centuries
- Margorie appears as a transposed spelling in the 1900s
- peaks in the 1920s and fades
Related forms: Marjorie · Margery · Marguerite
Pronouncing Margorie
MAR-juh-ree
Three syllables with the stress at the front. The transposed letters make no difference at all in speech.
Nicknames for Margorie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1907
- Most girls named
- 192539 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1252reached in 1925
- Change vs 1988
- +40.0%7 in 1996, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Margorie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Marjorie in English — spelling variant
- Margery in English — spelling variant
- Marguerite in French — related form
Margories among us
people named Margorie are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Margorie sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Margo is sitting inside this spelling and is far more fashionable than the whole.
- The name has been in continuous English use for eight hundred years.
- The meaning is concrete, pleasant and easy to explain.
- Marjorie is the standard spelling and this one will be corrected everywhere.
- Most readers will treat the transposition as an error.
- The name is closely associated with the early twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Margories are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 400 people named Margorie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Margorie in 2025?
- Margorie is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Margorie with classmates?
- Margorie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More M names
The most-given names starting with M, all years combined.
Mary#125 · Margaret#112 · Michelle#465 · Melissa#419 · Maria#87 · Martha#712 · Marie#617 · Mildred#1962
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