girls:
106k births since 1880
#353 (94th percentile)
boys:
403 births since 1917
#4183 (9th percentile)
overall:
106.4k births since 1880
#648 (92nd percentile)
The name Margie is the #648 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 106,369 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 91.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #353 (93.8% percentile) for all time with 105,966 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,183 (8.7% percentile) for all time with 403 births since 1917.
Margie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1917 for boys).
The name Margie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Margie reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 84.0% percentile (ranked #99) with 2,271 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 2,303 births per million (ranked 83.6% percentile). Despite a peak around 2019, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Margie ranks #925 for girls (2.3% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 0.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Margie reached its peak popularity in 1931, achieving the 3.5% percentile (ranked #502) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 1931, with 22 births per million (ranked 3.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1962.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Margie".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Margie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.7% confident that Margie is pronounced as MAHR-jee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAHR-gee, at 13.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like M AA1 R JH IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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