Marjorie is a female given name derived from Margaret, which means pearl. It can also be spelled as Margery or Marjory. Marjorie is a medieval variant of Margery, influenced by the name of the herb marjoram. It came into English from the Old French, from the Latin margarita (pearl).
After the Middle Ages this name was rare, but it was revived at the end of the 19th century.
NicknamesMarge, Margie, Marj, Jorie, MJ, Mar and Maggie are common nicknames of Marjorie.
Notable Marjories includeMarjorie, Countess of Carrick (also Margaret) (1253–1292), the mother of Robert the BruceMarjorie Abbatt (1899–1991), an English toy maker and businesswomanMarjorie Acker (1894–1985), a Washington, D.C. based artist and the niece of artists Gifford and Reynolds BealMarjorie Agosín (born 1955), an award-winning poet, essayist, fiction writer, activist, and professorMarjorie Anderson (1913–1999), a leading BBC radio broadcaster for over thirty yearsMarjorie Ogilvie Anderson (1909–2002), a Scottish historian and paleographerMarjorie Arnfield (1930–2001), an English artist who specialised in both industrial and rural landscapesMarjorie Barnard AO (1897–1987), an Australian novelist and short story writer, critic, historian and librarianMarjorie Barretto (born 1974), an actress and politician from the PhilippinesMarjorie Bates R.A. (1882–1962), a Derbyshire painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy in London and in ParisMarjorie Bean (died 2001), the first Bermudian woman to be appointed to Bermuda's former Legislative CouncilMarjorie Bennett (1896–1982), an Australian television and film actress who began her career during the silent film eraMarjorie Best (1903–1997), an American Hollywood costume designer best known for her period designsMarjorie Blamey OBE (born 1919), an English painter and illustrator, particularly noted for her botanical illustrationsMarjorie Blankstein, CM (née Rady), Canadian fundraiser, community activist and volunteerMarjorie Boulton (born 1924), a British author and poet writing in both English and EsperantoMarjorie Bowen (pseudonym of Mrs Gabrielle Margaret V[ere] Long née Campbell) (1885–1952), a British authorMarjorie Bransfield, an English-speaking former actress, who was married to actor James BelushiMarjorie Brown, the owner of the Boston Celtics following the death of her husband Walter A. BrownMarjorie Browne (1910–1990), a British actorMarjorie Lee Browne (1914–1979), a notable mathematics educator, the second African-American woman to receive a doctoral degree in the U.S.Marjorie Bruce or Marjorie de Brus (1296–1316), the eldest daughter of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots by his first wifeMarjorie Cameron (1922–1995), an artist, occultist, actress, and wife of rocket pioneer and occultist Jack ParsonsMarjorie Harris Carr (1915–1998), an American conservationistMarjorie Constance Caserio (born 1929), an American chemistMarjorie Sewell Cautley (1891–1954), an American landscape architectMarjorie Cevallos (born 1986), Miss World Ecuador 2008, was chosen on March 13, 2008Marjorie Chibnall, an English historian, medievalist and Latin translatorMarjorie Clapprood (born 1949), a former Massachusetts politician and talk show hostMarjorie Clark (born 1909), a South African former track and field athleteMarjorie Clarke, Ph.D., an environmental scientistMarjorie Cohn, a Professor of Law at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, CaliforniaMarjorie Kowalski Cole (1953–2009), a writer of poetry, short stories and novelsMarjorie Cottle, a leading motorcycle sports riderMarjorie Cotton (1913–2003), the first professionally qualified children's librarian in New South Wales, AustraliaMarjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907–2004), the South African museum official who in 1938 publicised the existence of the coelacanthMarjorie Cox Crawford, a female tennis player from AustraliaMarjorie Critten, Miss Missouri in 1958Marjorie Dannenfelser, President and Chairman of the Board of the Susan B. Anthony ListMarjorie Daw (actress) (1902–1979), an American film actress of the silent eraMarjorie de Sousa (born 1980), a Venezuelan model and actressMarjorie Dean, the protagonist and eponymous character of series of books for girls, written by Josephine ChaseMarjorie Deanne (1917–1994), an American film actressMarjorie Housepian Dobkin (born 1922), Professor Emeritus in English at Barnard College, Columbia University, New YorkMarjorie Dodd, an important amateur tennis player in the early part of the 20th CenturyMarjorie Dunn, a British horn player who performed with the Michael Nyman Band from 1991–1994Marjorie Estiano (born 1982), a Brazilian popular actress and singer who rose to prominence in 2004Marjorie Evasco (born 1953), an award-winning Filipino poetMarjorie Eyre (1897–1987), an English opera singerMarjorie Fielding (1892–1956), a British stage and film actressMarjorie Flack (1897–1958), an award-winning artist and writer of children's picture booksMarjorie Fleming (1803–1811), a child writer and poet, born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, ScotlandMarjorie Franklin, a conceptual artist and a Professor of Conceptual Art at University of Minnesota in the U.S.A.Marjorie Garber (born 1944), a professor at Harvard University and the author of a wide variety of booksMarjorie Gateson (1891–1977), a character actress in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940sMarjorie Gestring (1922–1992), a competitive springboard diver from the United States and the youngest ever Olympic gold medallistMarjorie Gordon (1893–1983), an English actress and singerMarjorie Graves (1884–1961), a British civil servant, Conservative politician and writerMarjorie Grene (1910–2009), an American philosopherMarjorie Griffin, a former camogie player, captain of the All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1946Marjorie Gross (1956–1996), a television writer and producerMarjorie Gubelmann (born 1969), owner and CEO of Vie Luxe InternationalMarjorie Guthrie (1917–1983), for a time the wife of folk musician Woody GuthrieMarjorie Halpin (1937–2000), a U.S.-Canadian anthropologistMarjorie Harris BA (born 1937), a Canadian non-fiction writerMarjorie Hall Harrison (born 1915), British astronomerMarjorie Heins, an activist, writer, and founder of the Free Expression Policy ProjectMarjorie Henzell (born 1948), Australian politicianMarjorie Hill (died 1909), one of the original nine of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated's twenty founders at Howard UniversityMarjorie Holt (born 1920), a Republican, was a U.S. Congresswoman who represented Maryland's 4th congressional districtMarjorie Hughes, a singer in the Frankie Carle OrchrestraMarjorie Hume (1900–1976), an English film actressMarjorie Husted (1892–1986), a home economist who helped develop the brand character Betty CrockerMarjorie Jackson-Nelson, AC, CVO, MBE (born 1931), a former Governor of South Australia and a former Australian athleteMarjorie Johnson, the "Blue Ribbon Baker", is a popular baker from Robbinsdale, MinnesotaMarjorie Joyner (1896–1994), African American inventor and businesswomanMarjorie Kane (1909–1992), an American film actressMarjorie Keller (1950–1994), an experimental filmmaker, author, activist, film scholar, wife of P. Adams SitneyMarjorie Kellogg (1922–2005), an American author born in Santa Barbara, CaliforniaMarjorie B. Kellogg, American writer, author of Dragon QuartetMarjorie Lane, an American singer and Broadway performer of the 1920s and 1930sMarjorie Lawrence CBE (1907–1979), an Australian soprano, particularly noted as an interpreter of Richard Wagner's operasMarjorie Lewty (1906–2002), a popular writer of over 45 romance novels from 1958 to 1999Marjorie Linton (1917–1994), a Canadian backstroke and freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1932 Summer OlympicsMarjorie Liu, a New York Times best-selling author of paranormal romance and urban fantasy novels and comic booksMarjorie Lord (1918–2015), an American television and film actressMarjorie Oludhe Macgoye (1928–2015), an English/Kenyan novelist, essayist and poetMarjorie Main (1890–1975), an American character actress, mainly at MGM, perhaps best known for her role as Ma KettleMarjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (born 1942), an adjunct faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania and a women's right activistMarjorie Matthews (1916–1986), an American Bishop of the United Methodist ChurchMarjorie Maxse (1891–1975), a political organiser and the first female chief organization officer of the Conservative PartyMarjorie Batchelder McPharlin (1903–1997), an important American puppeteer and authority on the puppet theaterMarjorie Merryman (born 1951), an American composer, author, and music educatorMarjorie Mikasen (born 1959), an abstract, geometric, hard-edge acrylic painter working in Lincoln, NebraskaMarjorie Monaghan, an American actress born in California but raised in OhioMarjorie Montgomery (born 1912), a child dancer and actressMarjorie Morgan (1915–2007), a Canadian writer and authorMarjorie Hope Nicolson (1894–1981), daughter of Charles Butler Nicolson, editor-in-chief of the Detroit Free Press during World War IMarjorie Noël (1945–2000), a French pop singer, represented Monaco in the 1965 Eurovision Song ContestMarjorie Oelrichs (1908–1937), nicknamed "Bubbles", was an American socialiteMarjorie Okell (1908–2009), an international track and field athlete from Great BritainMarjorie Ozanne (1897–1973), wrote stories in Guernesiais, published in the Guernsey Evening Press between 1949 and 1965Marjorie Parker, DBE (died 1991), an Australian civic and political activist, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1977Marjorie Perloff (born 1931), an Austrian-born U.S. poetry criticMarjorie Pickthall (1883–1922), a Canadian writer who was born in England but lived in Canada from the time she was sevenMarjorie Pizer (born 1920), an Australian poetMarjorie Merriweather Post (1887–1973), a leading American socialite and the founder of General Foods, Inc.Marjorie Pratt, Countess of Brecknock DBE, JP (died 1989), a British peeressMarjorie Priceman (born 1958), the author and/or illustrator of over 30 picture books for childrenMarjorie Proops (1911–1996), an agony aunt in the United Kingdom, writing the column Dear Marje for the Daily Mirror newspaperMarjorie Quennell (1884–1972), a British historian, illustrator and museum curatorMarjorie Rambeau (1889–1970), an American film and stage actressMarjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896–1953), an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settingsRobert and Marjorie Rawlins, American philanthropists and patrons of the arts, particularly musicMarjorie Rendell (born 1947), a federal judge and a former First Lady of PennsylvaniaMarjorie Reynolds (1917–1997), an American film actressMarjorie Rhodes (1897–1979), a British actressMarjorie Rice (born 1923), an American homemaker most famous for her discoveries in geometryMarjorie Newell Robb (1889–1992), one of the last remaining survivors of the sinking of the RMS TitanicMarjorie Scardino, DBE, FRSA (born 1947), the CEO of Pearson PLC.Marjorie Schwarzer (born 1957), an American museum writer and educatorMarjorie W. Sharmat (born 1928), an American children's writerMarjorie Shostak (1945–1996), an American anthropologistMarjorie Lynette Sigley (1928–1997), a British artist, writer, actress, teacher, choreographer, theatre director and television producerMarjorie Sinclair, Baroness Pentland (1880–1970), the daughter of Sir John Campbell Hamilton-GordonMarjorie Parker Smith (1917–2009), an American champion ice skater in dance and figure skating competitionsMarjorie Spock (1904–2008), an environmentalist, author and poet who influenced Rachel Carson's writing of Silent SpringMarjorie Strider (born 1934), an American painter, sculptor and performance artistMarjorie Hewitt Suchocki (born 1933), an author and United Methodist professor emerita of theology at Claremont School of TheologyMarjorie Sweeting, a geomorphologist specialising in karst phenomenaMarjorie Tallchief (born 1927), a ballerina of the Osage NationMarjorie Thomas (1923–2008), an English opera and oratorio singer for almost three decadesMarjorie Thompson, vice-chair and chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament between 1983 and 1993Marjorie Tipping MBE (1917–2009), an Australian historian and patron of community servicesMarjorie Torrey (born 1899), an illustrator and winner of two Caldecott Honor books in 1946 and 1947Marjorie Tuite (1922–1986), a New York City-born and reared Dominican nunMarjorie R. Turnbull (born 1940), served as a Representative in the House of Representatives of the U.S. state of FloridaMarjorie van Vliet (1923–1990), a teacher from Warwick, Rhode Island in the United StatesMarjorie Vincent, a former journalist and beauty contestant who was crowned Miss America 1991Marjorie Wallace (born 1954), a former United States model later turned television presenterMarjorie Wallace (SANE) CBE (Countess Skarbek) (born 1945), a British writer, broadcaster and investigative journalist, chief executive of SANEMarjorie Weaver (1913–1994), an American film actress of the 1930s through the early 1950sMarjorie Welish (born 1944), an American poet, artist, and art criticMarjorie Westbury (1905–1989), an English radio actress and singerMarjorie Wheeler-Barclay, an American historian and university professor at Randolph CollegeMarjorie Whitaker (1895–1976) (pseudonym Malachi Whitaker), an English writer noted for her short stories and an autobiographyMarjorie White (1904–1935), a Canadian-born actress of stage and filmMarjorie Williams (1958–2005), a writer, reporter, and columnist for Vanity Fair and The Washington PostMarjorie Williamson (1913–2002), a British academic, educator, physicist and university administratorMarjorie Willison, an author of books on gardening and a radio personality who answers gardeners' questionsMarjorie Muir Worthington (1900–1976), an American author of novels and short storiesMarjorie Yang (born 1952), a non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong KongMarjorie Yates (born 1941), a British actress most famous for her role as Carol Fisher in the Channel 4 drama Shameless