first name
MARGERY
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 6,373 people named Margery, 91.9% reported their origin as White, 3.1% as Black and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (100%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Margery peaked in 1921, when 564 babies got the name.
At least 15,791 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Margery by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1920s, when it ranked #567. The largest share of babies named Margery, 42.3%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Margery is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Margery has been most common in Iowa (3.5×), Massachusetts (2.7×), and Nebraska (2.3×), and least common in Tennessee (0.13×).
11,489 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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