girls:
3.8k births since 1889
#2804 (51st percentile)
overall:
3.8k births since 1889
#4467 (42nd percentile)
The name Marge is the #4,467 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,784 recorded births since 1889. This represents the 42.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 42.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,804 (50.9% percentile) for all time with 3,784 births since 1889.
Marge first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1889 (first recorded for girls in 1889). Birth data for Marge is available in 81 out of the 88 years between 1889 and 1976. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Marge reached its peak popularity in 1941, achieving the 18.2% percentile (ranked #482) with 91 births per million. The name was most common in 1941, with 91 births per million (ranked 18.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1976.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Marge".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Marge. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.0% confident that Marge is pronounced as mahrj, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mahrj, at 10.0% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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