Entry № 1578 · English, Greek origin

Marjorie Marjorie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAR-jor-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English, Greek
Meaning
"Pearl (Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Everglades activist; Marjorie Rawlings)"
Syllables
3
Rank · US 2025
№ 850
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "pearl (marjory stoneman douglas, everglades activist; marjorie rawlings)".

Marjorie is the medieval Scottish-English form of Margery — from Margaret, Greek margarites (pearl). **A top-25 US baby name from 1915 to 1935**. **Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890-1998)** — **American journalist and environmentalist whose 1947 book *The Everglades: River of Grass* — and seven decades of activism that followed — saved the Florida Everglades from being drained and developed**. **Lived to age 108; received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Bill Clinton at age 103 (1993)**. **Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida — site of the 2018 mass shooting — was named in her honor; the surviving students became the Never Again MSD gun-control movement**. **Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953)** — Pulitzer for *The Yearling* (1939). **Marjorie Merriweather Post** — heiress and Mar-a-Lago founder.

Subject of Jack E. Davis's *An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century* (2009).

Pearl. Saved the Florida Everglades over seven decades of activism; received the Medal of Freedom at 103.

The name in its native script.

Marjorie
Transliteration
Marjorie
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɑːr.dʒər.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Marjorie stands.

Current rank · 2025
№ 850 in the U.S.
All-time peak
№ 22 in 1921
Babies named Marjorie · last year
305 in the U.S.
First entered SSA top-1000
1880
Rank, 1995–2025 Lower = more popular
№25 №75 №150 №250 1995 2005 2015 2020 2025 PEAK · #22 NOW · #850

Marjories before her.

Real people
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
American environmentalist.
1890 – 1998
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
American Pulitzer novelist.
1896 – 1953
In fiction
Marjorie
The Yearling.
1938

Names connected to Marjorie.

The number behind Marjorie.

8

The Authority

Marjorie reduces to eight — the number of Everglades savior.

Why families chose this name.

"Stoneman Douglas's pearl. Eight letters. Marjorie."
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