Marjorie
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Marjorie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 13th most common given name. In English, recorded as from Margaret; later linked by sound to marjoram, the herb.
- JMJamaica≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.2K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #825 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 501 (measured from records)
- 1 in 810 (inferred from the name graph)
97,802 people, 2020
of 15M given names
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
French/English form related to Margery, from Marguerite; ultimately Greek margarites 'pearl'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Marjorie is read(measured from records)
Marjorie is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English76%
from Margaret; later linked by sound to marjoram, the herb
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A female given name from Ancient Greek.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish6.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Marjorie in Spanish.
- French6.4%
French/English form related to Margery, from Marguerite; ultimately Greek margarites 'pearl'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Forme américaine de Marguerite, du latin margarita « perle ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marjorie counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #343 | 97,802 | 1 in 3.4K | 98K | Marjorie | 501 |
| PH Philippines | #243 | ≈88,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Marjorie | 164 |
| GB United Kingdom | #309 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 4 | Marjorie | 175 |
| FR France | — | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 30K | — | 11 |
| IT Italy | #504 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 2 | Marjorie | 40 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 20,875 | 1 in 810 | 21K | Marjorie | 45 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 5,981 | 1 in 852 | 6K | — | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | #13 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Marjorie | 20 |
97,802 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INEC — civil registry names; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Marjorie is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
English: usual modern spelling of MARGERY . It seems to have arisen as the result of popular etymological association of the name with that of the herb marjoram (cf. ROSEMARY ). This word is of uncertain origin; its Middle English and Old French form was majorane , without the first - r -. Variant: Marjory (the usual spelling in Scotland; See also MARSAILI ) .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Marjorie Rambeaub. 1889USAmerican actress (1889-1970)
- Marjorie Mainb. 1890USUS actress (1890–1975)
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlingsb. 1896USAmerican novelist (1896–1953)
- Winifred Wagnerb. 1897GBnot in their usual nameWife of Siegfried Wagner (1897–1980)
- Marjorie Courtenay-Latimerb. 1907ZASouth African naturalist (1907–2004)
- Marge Championb. 1919USnot in their usual nameAmerican dancer and actress (1919–2020)
- Marjorie Jackson-Nelsonb. 1931AUGovernor of South Australia (2001-07)
- Judy Collinsb. 1939USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer (born 1939)
- Marjorie Taylor Greeneb. 1974USAmerican politician
- Marjorie Estianob. 1982BRBrazilian actress and singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 80 sources across 49 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 98K | #561 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2023 | 30K | #3,064 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 21K | #103 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 6K | #118 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 246 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 114 | #561 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 38 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 1979 | 4 | #464 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 2 | #4,117 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Marjorie come from?
- French/English form related to Margery, from Marguerite; ultimately Greek margarites 'pearl'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What are other forms of the name Marjorie?
- In the etymology graph, Margaret, Margarita and Marguerite are forms of the same name in other languages; Jorie and Marje are recorded short or pet forms.
- What does the name Marjorie mean?
- In English, from Margaret; later linked by sound to marjoram, the herb
- Is Marjorie a male or female name?
- Marjorie is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Marjorie have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 98 thousand people named Marjorie, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marjorie.
- Where is Marjorie most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marjorie is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 810 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Marjorie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 97,802 people named Marjorie in 2020, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Marjorie compared with other names?
- In the United States, Marjorie is the 343rd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Marjorie” — the 343rd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.