Entry № 6545 · English origin

Marjorie Marjorie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAR-jor-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Pearl (Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Everglades activist; Marjorie Rawlings)"
Syllables
3
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). 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 Merriweather Post — heiress and Mar-a-Lago founder.

Subject of Jack E.

Pearl (Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Everglades activist; Marjorie Rawlings) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

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

Where Marjorie stands.

Marjorie 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.

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 Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Marjorie reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.