Margery

Where Margery comes from

From Old French; ultimately from Ancient Greek.
— Wiktionary's entry for Margery
  • Ancient Greek
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1373
    Margery Kempe born
    British Christian mystic and author
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #628 among girls — 8 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1904
    Margery Allingham born
    English writer of detective fiction, editor
  4. 1921
    Peak, #279
    564 babies named Margery — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1934
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #385.
In the dictionary
  • A medieval vernacular form of Margaret, A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Namesakes
  • Margery Allingham · English writer of detective fiction, editor, 1904–1966
  • Margery Kempe · British Christian mystic and author, born 1373
  • Margery Corbett Ashby · British activist, 1882–1981
  • Margery Sharp · English writer, 1905–1991
  • Margery Mason · English actress, 1913–2014

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.