How popular is “Margery” in the USA?

Number of people named “Margery” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Margery” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Margery” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Margery” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Margery” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Margery” by birth year

This chart shows how “Margery” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
1880	8	0.000039705	8	100%
1881	8	0.000041518	8	100%
1882	12	0.000054168	12	100%
1883	11	0.000050704	11	100%
1884	11	0.000045182	11	100%
1885	8	0.000033215	8	100%
1886	17	0.000066584	17	100%
1887	29	0.000117223	29	100%
1888	12	0.00004007	12	100%
1889	13	0.000044991	13	100%
1890	25	0.000082946	25	100%
1891	28	0.000097672	28	100%
1892	33	0.000098692	33	100%
1893	31	0.000095319	31	100%
1894	35	0.000103339	35	100%
1895	39	0.000111105	39	100%
1896	43	0.000120285	43	100%
1897	37	0.000106641	37	100%
1898	38	0.000099619	38	100%
1899	41	0.000120861	41	100%
1900	38	0.000084396	38	100%
1901	39	0.000112778	39	100%
1902	35	0.000090502	35	100%
1903	41	0.000107555	41	100%
1904	39	0.000096658	39	100%
1905	35	0.000082562	35	100%
1906	51	0.000119033	51	100%
1907	46	0.000098842	46	100%
1908	47	0.000096184	47	100%
1909	54	0.000105629	54	100%
1910	66	0.00011173	66	100%
1911	76	0.000117961	76	100%
1912	127	0.000128534	127	100%
1913	127	0.000111687	127	100%
1914	167	0.000117909	167	100%
1915	275	0.000150074	275	100%
1916	330	0.000170594	330	100%
1917	390	0.000194344	390	100%
1918	378	0.000174104	378	100%
1919	393	0.000186234	393	100%
1920	534	0.000236007	534	100%
1921	564	0.000241593	564	100%
1922	511	0.000223226	511	100%
1923	515	0.000223672	515	100%
1924	515	0.00021624	515	100%
1925	444	0.000190288	444	100%
1926	439	0.00019121	439	100%
1927	435	0.000187552	435	100%
1928	400	0.000176918	400	100%
1929	365	0.000166502	365	100%
1930	354	0.000159224	354	100%
1931	317	0.000150638	317	100%
1932	316	0.000149671	316	100%
1933	297	0.000148541	297	100%
1934	277	0.000133377	277	100%
1935	254	0.000121537	254	100%
1936	217	0.000104449	217	100%
1937	224	0.000105131	224	100%
1938	219	0.00009898	219	100%
1939	210	0.000095305	210	100%
1940	212	0.000092066	212	100%
1941	222	0.000091117	222	100%
1942	249	0.000091148	249	100%
1943	230	0.000081486	230	100%
1944	242	0.00008996	242	100%
1945	216	0.00008142	216	100%
1946	215	0.000067286	215	100%
1947	302	0.000083835	302	100%
1948	229	0.000066328	229	100%
1949	220	0.000063132	220	100%
1950	184	0.000052521	184	100%
1951	170	0.000046149	170	100%
1952	204	0.000053712	204	100%
1953	198	0.00005138	198	100%
1954	148	0.000037179	148	100%
1955	138	0.00003437	138	100%
1956	144	0.000034926	144	100%
1957	118	0.000028081	118	100%
1958	113	0.000027335	113	100%
1959	90	0.000021645	90	100%
1960	82	0.000019741	82	100%
1961	103	0.000024865	103	100%
1962	88	0.000021807	88	100%
1963	84	0.000021222	84	100%
1964	74	0.000019035	74	100%
1965	77	0.000021239	77	100%
1966	66	0.000018989	66	100%
1967	52	0.000015317	52	100%
1968	46	0.000013616	46	100%
1969	39	0.000011222	39	100%
1970	43	0.000011923	43	100%
1971	24	0.000006992	24	100%
1972	25	0.000007954	25	100%
1973	34	0.00001127	34	100%
1974	28	0.000009211	28	100%
1975	26	0.000008611	26	100%
1976	23	0.00000758	23	100%
1977	21	0.000006611	21	100%
1978	15	0.000004726	15	100%
1979	8	0.000002405	8	100%
1980	23	0.000006677	23	100%
1981	19	0.000005492	19	100%
1982	19	0.000005416	19	100%
1983	13	0.000003754	13	100%
1984	17	0.000004873	17	100%
1985	16	0.000004483	16	100%
1986	7	0.000001968	7	100%
1987	11	0.000003051	11	100%
1988	14	0.000003789	14	100%
1989	11	0.000002861	11	100%
1990	17	0.000004301	17	100%
1991	13	0.000003337	13	100%
1992	7	0.000001822	7	100%
1993	12	0.000003183	12	100%
1995	7	0.000001911	7	100%
1996	9	0.000002468	9	100%
1997	6	0.000001655	6	100%
1998	6	0.000001631	6	100%
1999	9	0.000002436	9	100%
2000	8	0.000002116	8	100%
2001	5	0.000001336	5	100%
2002	10	0.000002675	10	100%
2003	9	0.000002367	9	100%
2004	7	0.000001832	7	100%
2005	6	0.000001561	6	100%
2007	6	0.000001501	6	100%
2008	7	0.000001781	7	100%
2014	7	0.000001889	7	100%
2016	7	0.000001908	7	100%
2017	11	0.000003076	11	100%
2019	7	0.000002017	7	100%
2020	9	0.000002694	9	100%
2022	8	0.000002365	8	100%

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