Marjorie A Comprehensive Overview

Origin and History of the name Marjorie

Scottish Marjorie and her English twin Margery were early twentieth century favorites that date back to medieval times, when it was popular among the royals. They were at their height in the 1920s, when they were seen as more lively versions of the old standard. Marjorie was always the preferred spelling, in the Top 25 from 1920 to 1927.

One notable namesake is Marjorie Stinson, a pioneering aviator who was the first female airline pilot. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was the author of the moving novel The Yearling and Margery Williams's name is on the cover of kiddie favorite The Velveteen Rabbit—and there's always the old nursery rhyme "See-Saw, Margery Daw."

Nickname Margie was seen as a prime pert teenager moniker in movies and such vintage TV shows as My Little Margie. Marge is strongly associated with Homer Simpson's wife. Jorie might make for a fresher nickname these days.

Though Margery and Marjorie endured time off the popularity lists recently, their three syllables and "ee" ending make them a modern possibility.

Marjorie could have possibly faded with advent of the word "margarine."

Famous people named Marjorie

• Marjorie Abbatt (1899–1991), English toy maker and businesswoman
• Marjorie Acker (1894–1985), American artist
• Marjorie Agosín (born 1955), poet, essayist, fiction writer, activist, and professor
• Marjorie Anderson (1913–1999), English BBC radio broadcaster
• Marjorie Arnfield (1930–2001), English artist
• Marjorie Barnard (1897–1987), Australian novelist and short story writer, and librarian
• Marjorie Barretto (born 1974), filipino actress and politician
• Marjorie Bates (1882–1962), English painter
• Marjorie Bean († 2001), Bermudian politician
• Marjorie Bennett (1896–1982), Australian television and film actress
• Marjorie Best (1903–1997), American costume designer
• Marjorie Blamey (born 1919), English painter and illustrator
• Marjorie Boulton (born 1924), British author and poet
• Marjorie Bowen (1885–1952), British author
• Marjorie Browne (1910–1990), British actress
• Marjorie Bruce (1296–1316), eldest daughter of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots
• Marjorie Cameron (1922–1995), American artist, occultist, and actress
• Marjorie Cevallos (born 1986), Miss World Ecuador 2008
• Marjorie Clapprood (born 1949), American politician
• Marjorie Clark (born 1909), former South African track and field athlete
• Marjorie Constance Caserio (born 1929), American chemist
• Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907–2004), South African museum official
• Marjorie Daw (1902–1979), American film actress
• Marjorie de Sousa (born 1980), Venezuelan model and actress
• Marjorie Deanne (1917–1994), American actress
• Marjorie Estiano (born 1982), Brazilian actress and singer
• Marjorie Evasco (born 1953), Filipino poet
• Marjorie Eyre (1897–1987), English opera singer
• Marjorie Fielding (1892–1956), British stage and film actress
• Marjorie Flack (1897–1958), American artist
• Marjorie Fleming (1803–1811), Scottish writer and poet
• Marjorie Garber (born 1944), American author
• Marjorie Gestring (1922–1992), American springboard diver
• Marjorie Gordon (1893–1983), English actress and singer
• Marjorie Graves (1884–1961), British civil servant, politician and writer
• Marjorie Grene (1910–2009), American philosopher
• Marjorie Gross (1956–1996), Canadian television writer and producer
• Marjorie Gubelmann (born 1969), American owner and CEO of Vie Luxe International
• Marjorie Guthrie (1917–1983), wife of folk musician Woody Guthrie
• Marjorie Hall Harrison (born 1915), British astronomer
• Marjorie Halpin (1937–2000), American-Canadian anthropologist
• Marjorie Harris (born 1937), Canadian non-fiction writer
• Marjorie Harris Carr (1915–1998), American conservationist
• Marjorie Henzell, (born 1948), Australian politician
• Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki (born 1933), American author
• Marjorie Holt (born 1920), American politician
• Marjorie Hope Nicolson (1894–1981), daughter of Charles Butler Nicolson
• Marjorie Hume (1900–1976), English film actress
• Marjorie Husted (1892–1986), American economist
• Marjorie Joyner (1896–1994), African American inventor and businesswoman
• Marjorie Kane (1909–1992), American film actress
• Marjorie Keller (1950–1994), American filmmaker, author, and activist
• Marjorie Kellogg (1922–2005), American author
• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896–1953), American author
• Marjorie Kowalski Cole (1953–2009), American writer
• Marjorie Lawrence (1907–1979), Australian soprano
• Marjorie Lee Browne (1914–1979), African-American mathematics educator
• Marjorie Lewty (1906–2002), British writer of short stories
• Marjorie Linton (born 1917), Canadian backstroke and freestyle swimmer
• Marjorie Lord (born 1918), American television and film actress
• Marjorie Lynette Sigley (1928–1997), British artist, writer, actress, and choreographer
• Marjorie Main (1890–1975), American character actress
• Marjorie Matthews (1916–1986), American Bishop of the United Methodist Church
• Marjorie Maxse (1891–1975), british political organizer
• Marjorie McPharlin (1903–1997), American puppeteer
• Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887–1973), American socialite and the founder of General Foods, Inc.
• Marjorie Merryman (born 1951), American composer, author, and music educator
• Marjorie Mikasen (born 1959), american artist
• Marjorie Montgomery (born 1912), former American child dancer and actress
• Marjorie Morgan (1915–2007), Canadian writer and author
• Marjorie Muir Worthington (1900–1976), American author
• Marjorie Noël (1945–2000), French pop singer
• Marjorie Oelrichs (1908–1937), American socialite
• Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson (1909–2002), Scottish historian and paleographer
• Marjorie Okell (1908–2009), british track and field athlete
• Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye (born 1928), british-Kenyan novelist, essayist and poet
• Marjorie Ozanne (1897–1973), French author
• Marjorie Parker († 1991), Australian civic and political activist
• Marjorie Parker Smith (1917–2009), American figure skater
• Marjorie Perloff (born 1931), American-Austrian poetry critic
• Marjorie Pickthall (1883–1922), Canadian writer
• Marjorie Pizer (born 1920), Australian poet
• Marjorie Priceman (born 1958), American author and illustrator
• Marjorie Quennell (1884–1972), British historian, illustrator and museum curator
• Marjorie R. Turnbull (born 1940), American politician
• Marjorie Rambeau (1889–1970), American film and stage actress
• Marjorie Rendell (born 1947), American federal judge
• Marjorie Reynolds (1917–1997), American film actress
• Marjorie Rhodes (1897–1979), British actress
• Marjorie Rice (born 1923), American amateur mathematician
• Marjorie Schwarzer (born 1957), American museum writer and educator
• Marjorie Sewell Cautley (1891–1954), American landscape architect
• Marjorie Shostak (1945–1996), American anthropologist
• Marjorie Sinclair (1880–1970), daughter of Sir John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon
• Marjorie Spock (1904–2008), American environmentalist, author and poet
• Marjorie Strider (born 1934), American painter, sculptor and performance artist
• Marjorie Tallchief (born 1927), American ballerina
• Marjorie Thomas (1923–2008), English opera and oratorio singer
• Marjorie Tipping (1917–2009), Australian historian and patron of community services
• Marjorie Tuite (1922–1986), American-Dominican nun
• Marjorie W. Sharmat (born 1928), American children's writer
• Marjorie Wallace (born 1945), British writer, broadcaster and investigative journalist
• Marjorie Wallace (born 1954), former American model turned television presenter
• Marjorie Weaver (1913–1994), American actress
• Marjorie Welish (born 1944), American poet, artist, and art critic
• Marjorie Westbury (1905–1989), English radio actress and singer
• Marjorie Whitaker (1895–1976), English writer
• Marjorie White (1904–1935), Canadian actress
• Marjorie Williams (1958–2005) American writer, reporter, and columnist
• Marjorie Williamson (1913–2002), British academic, educator, and physicist
• Marjorie Yates (born 1941), British actress
• Marjorie, Countess of Carrick (1253–1292), mother of Robert the Bruce