Entry № 6466 · Greek origin

Margery Margery — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAR-jer-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Pearl (English mystic Margery Kempe)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "pearl (english mystic margery kempe)".

Margery is a medieval English form of Margaret, from the Greek for a pearl. Warm and a little rustic, it was one of the most common names in the England of the Middle Ages.

It is remembered through Margery Kempe, the fifteenth-century mystic whose Book is often called the first autobiography written in English.

Vintage, gentle and literary, Margery is a pearl with a long history.

A pearl — medieval and literary.

The name in its native script.

Margery
Transliteration
Margery
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɑːr.dʒə.ri /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Margery stands.

Margery does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Margerys before her.

Real people
Margery Kempe
First English autobiographer.
c. 1373 – 1438
Margery Sharp
British author of The Rescuers.
1905 – 1991
In fiction
Margaery Tyrell
Character in Game of Thrones.
George R.R. Martin

Names connected to Margery.

The number behind Margery.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Margery reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.