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Marge

Recorded 1889–1976 · United States

Marge was most popular in 1941, when 114 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,193 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,784 people named Marge.

Most popular in1941
Rank that year#1,193
Births that year114
Total since 18803,784
Given to100% girls
Alive today~1,000
Median age78

Marge over time

18802025
Births per year. The dot marks Marge’s peak in 1941. Gaps are years the SSA suppressed, which it does for any name given to fewer than five babies.

How old is the name Marge?

Marge first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1889, which makes it about 136 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 81 of the 137 years since. It was last recorded in 1976.

How many people are named Marge?

The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,784 American births named Marge between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,285 are estimated to be alive today.

How many babies were named Marge in 2025?

Marge was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.

Is Marge a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Across the whole record Marge is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 3,784 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.

Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.

How old is someone named Marge?

Roughly 1,285 Americans named Marge are alive today — 34% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 78 years old, and half are between 68 and 84.

An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.

Where Marge is most concentrated

How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.

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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org