Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Margery through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 15,791
- 0 boys · 15,791 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 564 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #14,304 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −59%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 14,304 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 564 in 1921. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 6,373 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Margery’s family of names
Margery is a vernacular form of Margaret. Margery has a related form in Marjorie. In English usage, Margery has a related form in Marjorie.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Margery has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
5 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Margery
- Margery AllinghamEnglish writer of detective fiction, editor (1904–1966)
- Margery KempeBritish Christian mystic and author1373
- Margery Corbett AshbyBritish activist (1882-1981)
- Margery SharpEnglish writer (1905–1991)
- Margery MasonEnglish actress (1913–2014)
- Margery WilsonAmerican actress (1896-1986)
- Margery Williamswriter (1881-1944)
- Margery JourdemayneEnglish witch; cunning woman (before 1415 – 1441)1400–1441
- Margery C. CarlsonU.S. botanist and conservationist (1892-1985)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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