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Girl · English pet form of a Greek name
Margie
Say it: MAR-jee
Meaning
A pet form of Margaret or Marjorie, from Greek margarites 'pearl'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Popular in the US in the 1920s and 1930s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1920s
In the United States
- 106,303 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1922, about 1 in 421 girls
- 16 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Margy
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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