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Marjorie

Girl name · 40 babies recorded · 1974–2025

Marjorie: 40 babies born in Scotland since 1974, given to girls, peaking at 15 births in 1974.

From the medieval Scottish and English form of the French Marguerite, Marjorie shares the same root as Margaret, tracing back to the Greek *margarites*, meaning "pearl." The name was popularised in Scotland through Marjorie Bruce, the spirited daughter of King Robert the Bruce, whose marriage to Walter Stewart founded the Stewart royal dynasty. Poet Marjorie Fleming, who died tragically young, was a celebrated child writer. The name also connects to the kestrel-like bird, the "marjorie," though this is a later folk association rather than its true origin. Across the Atlantic, author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings captured rural Florida life in *The Yearling*, while the variant spelling Marjory remains a quieter alternative, most famously borne by environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas.