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Throughout the world, Meagre (Marga , Macer , Megre ) is a common principally girly, but very infrequently male given name. The first name Meagre is characteristic of Germany, where it is quite a common female name, Belize, where it is quite a rare feminine name, and Spain, where it is quite a rare mostly feminine, but seldom male name. Measured by absolute frequency, it most frequently occurs in Germany, Spain, and Indonesia. Much less frequently, Meagre is the last name as well as the forename.
Meagre is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Marga Bronski , the fictional character from The Tin Drum by Günter Grass and Macer , the musical character in the musical Made in Dagenham by David Arnold.