Marjory

Where Marjory comes from

The dictionaries list Marjory as a given name — a female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Margery — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Ancient Greek
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1885
    Marjory Stephenson born
    British biochemist
  2. 1887
    First appearance
    #937 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1890
    Marjory Stoneman Douglas born
    American activist, journalist and writer
  4. 1922
    Peak, #383
    290 babies named Marjory — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1931
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #558.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Margery.
Namesakes
  • Marjory Stoneman Douglas · American activist, journalist and writer, 1890–1998
  • Marjory Stephenson · British biochemist, 1885–1948
  • Marjory Wardrop · English historian, translator, writer, 1869–1909
  • Marjory Nyaumwe · Zimbabwean association football player, born 1987
  • Marjory Gordon · American nurse and theorist, 1931–2015

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.