Marjorie is a female given name derived from Margaret, which means pearl. It can also be spelled as Margery, Marjory or Margaery. 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.
Short forms of the name include Marge, Margie, Marj and Jorie.
People Marjorie, Countess of Carrick (also Margaret) (1253–1292), mother of Robert the Bruce Marjorie (singer) (1965–2024), Finnish singer Marjorie Abbatt (1899–1991), English toy maker and businesswoman Marjorie Acker (1894–1985), American artist Marjorie Agosín (1955–2025), American writer, activist, and professor Marjorie Alessandrini (1946–2014), French journalist Marjorie Allen Seiffert (1885–1970), American poet Marjorie Anderson (1913–1999), British actress and BBC radio broadcaster Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson (1909–2002), Scottish historian and paleographer Marjorie Anthony Linden (1935–2013), Canadian broadcaster and media executive Marjorie Arnfield (1930–2001), English landscape artist Marjorie May Bacon (1902–1988), British painter Marjorie Bailey (born 1947), Canadian sprinter Marjorie Baker, British photographer Marjorie Barnard (1897–1987), Australian writer, critic, and librarian Marjorie Barrett, English badminton player Marjorie Barretto (born 1974), actress and politician from the Philippines Marjorie Barrows, American woman magazine editor, book compiler and author Marjorie Batchelor, American mathematician Marjorie Bates (1882–1962), British painter Marjorie Bean (died 2001), first Bermudian woman to be appointed to its Legislative Council Marjorie Beaucage (born 1947), Métis filmmaker Marjorie Beebe (1908–1983), American actress Marjorie Bell (1906–2001), British electrical engineer and factory inspector Marjorie Bell Chambers (1923–2006), American educator, historian and politician Marjorie Bennett (1896–1982), Australian actress Marjorie Bentley, American dancer Marjorie Benton Cooke, American monologist, playwright and novelist Marjorie Best (1903–1997), American costume designer Marjorie Bick (1915–2013), Australian biochemist and environmental scientist Marjorie Adele Blackistone Bradfield (1911–1999), American librarian Marjorie Blackwood (born 1957), Canadian tennis player Marjorie Blamey (1919–2019), English painter and illustrator Marjorie Blankstein (née Rady), Canadian fundraiser, community activist, and volunteer Marjorie Bloch, Irish painter Marjorie Bonner (19th century actress), American actress Marjorie Bonner (Ziegfeld Follies), American dancer and actress Marjorie Boulton (1924–2017), British writer in English and Esperanto Marjorie Bowen (1885–1952), British author Marjorie Bradford Melville (born 1929), former Roman Catholic nun and peace activist Marjorie Bransfield, American actress Marjorie Brown (politician), British politician and first woman Lord Mayor of Birtmingham Marjorie Brown (1911–2000), American businesswoman and owner of the Boston Celtics Marjorie Browne (1910–1990), British actor Marjorie Lee Browne (1914–1979), African-American mathematics educator Marjorie Bruce or Marjorie de Brus (1296–1316), eldest daughter of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots Marjorie Frances Bruford (1902–1958), British artist Marjorie V. Butcher (1925–2016), American mathematician Marjorie Byrnes (born 1960), American politician Marjorie Cameron (1922–1995), American artist, occultist, and actress; wife of rocket pioneer Jack Parsons Marjorie Carpréaux (born 1987), Belgian basketball player Marjorie Harris Carr (1915–1998), American conservationist Marjorie Carroll (1932–2020), Canadian politician Marjorie Constance Caserio (1929–2021), American chemist Marjorie Sewell Cautley (1891–1954), American landscape architect Marjorie Celona (born 1981), American-Canadian writer Marjorie Chambers (1906–1989), New Zealand nurse Marjorie Elizabeth Jane Chandler (1897–1983), English paleobotanist Marjorie Chávez, Ecuadorian politician Marjorie Chibnall (1915–2012), English historian, medievalist and Latin translator Marjorie Clapprood (born 1949), Massachusetts politician and talk show host Marjorie Clark (1909–1993), South African track and field athlete Marjorie Clarke, American environmental scientist Marjorie Cohn (born 1948), American professor of law Marjorie Kowalski Cole (1953–2009), American author Marjorie Margaret Conley (1931–1959), Australian operatic soprano Marjorie Conrad (born 1988), French-American model and filmmaker Marjorie Content (1895–1984), American photographer Marjorie Cooper (1902–1984), Canadian politician Marjorie Corbett (1912–1995), British actress Marjorie Corcoran (1950–2017), American particle physicist Marjorie Cottle (1900–1987), British motorcycle sports rider Marjorie Cotton (1913–2003), Australian children's librarian Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907–2004), South African museum official who in 1938 publicized the existence of the coelacanth Marjorie Cox Crawford, Australian tennis player Marjorie Critten, Miss Missouri in 1958 Marjorie Crocombe (1930–2022), author and academic from the Cook Islands Marjorie Curry Woods, American historian of English literature Marjorie Dannenfelser, American anti-abortion activist, president of the Susan B. Anthony List Marjorie Davis, Canadian surgeon Marjorie Daw (actress) (1902–1979), American film actress of the silent era Marjorie de Sousa (born 1980), Venezuelan model and actress Marjorie Deane (1914–2008), British financial journalist and author Marjorie Deanne (1917–1994), American film actress Marjorie Deans (1901–1982), British screenwriter Marjorie Decker, American politician Marjorie Delassus (born 1998), French canoeist Marjorie Dence (1901–1966), British actress and theatre manager Marjorie Devaney (1931–2007), American mathematician, electrical engineer and computer scientist Marjorie Ruth Dilley (1903–1989), American political scientist Marjorie Housepian Dobkin (1922–2013), American author and professor of English Marjorie Dodd, American tennis player and golfer in the early 20th century Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890–1998), American journalist Marjorie Drawbell British artist Marjorie Dunn, British horn player Marj Dusay (1936–2020), American actress Marjorie K. Eastman, American author and US Army veteran Marjorie Eaton (1901–1986), American actress and artist Marjorie Edgar, American folklorist Marjorie Esa (born 1934), Inuk artist Marjorie Estiano (born 1982), Brazilian actress and singer Marjorie Evans (c. 1850–1907), Scottish artist Marjorie Evasco (born 1953), Filipino poet Marjorie Eyre (1897–1987), English opera singer Marjorie Farquharson (1953–2016), Scottish political scientist and human rights worker Marjorie Fielding (1892–1956), British stage and film actress Marjorie Finlay (1928–2003), American opera singer and television personality Marjorie Fitzgibbon (1930–2018), Irish-American sculptor and actor Marjorie Flack (1897–1958), American artist and writer of children's picture books Marjorie Fleming (1803–1811), Scottish child writer and poet Marjorie Fowler (1920–2003), American film editor Marjorie Franklin (1887–1975), British psychoanalyst Marjorie Fulton (1909–1962), American violinist Marjorie Gaffney (1897–1963), British actress and screenwriter Marjorie Garber (born 1944), American author and professor Marjorie Gardener, British nurse educator and administrator Marjorie Gateson (1891–1977), American character actress in films of the 1930s and 1940s Marjorie Gestring (1922–1992), American springboard diver and Olympic gold medallist Marjorie Gladman (1908–1999), American tennis player Marjorie Godfrey (1919–2003), Indian politician Marjorie Goetschius, American composer, pianist, cellist and singer Marjorie Gordon (1893–1983), English actress and singer Marjorie Gould Drexel (1891–1955), American heiress and socialite Marjorie Graves (1884–1961), British civil servant, Conservative politician and writer Marjorie Grene (1910–2009), American philosopher Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson (1909–2003), English economist Marjorie Gross (1956–1996), Canadian television writer and producer Marjorie Gubelmann (born 1969), American businesswoman, owner and CEO of Vie Luxe International Marjorie Guthrie (1917–1983), American dancer and dance teacher Marjorie Gwynne, Australian artist Marjorie Hahn (born 1948), American mathematician and tennis player Marjorie Haines (1928–2014), American equestrian Marjorie Halpin (1937–2000), U.S.-Canadian anthropologist Marjorie Hanna, Canadian baseball player Marjorie Hannan, American actress Marjorie Happy, American politician Marjorie Harness Goodwin, American anthropologist Marjorie Harris (born 1937), Canadian non-fiction writer Marjorie Silliman Harris (1890–1976), American philosopher Marjorie Hall Harrison (1918–1986), British astronomer Marjorie L. Harth, American art historian Marjorie Hasler (1887–1913), Irish suffragette Marjorie Hayward (1885–1953), British violinist Marjorie Wong Hee (1905–1981), American Hawaiian painter, teacher Marjorie Heins, American lawyer, activist, writer, and founder of the Free Expression Policy Project Marjorie Henzell (born 1948), Australian politician Marjorie Herrera (born 2001), Salvadoran chess player Marjorie Herrera Lewis, American sports journalist and novelist Marjorie Hesse, Australian pianist and composer Marj Heyduck (1913–1969), American newspaper reporter, columnist and editor and radio show host Marjorie Hill (1886–1909), American, a founder of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority Marjorie Hill Allee (1890–1945), American author Marjorie Hollond, American-born British economist and academic administrator Marjorie Holt (1920–2018), Republican U.S. Congresswoman for Maryland Marjorie Hood (1913–2006), American baseball player Marjorie Hooker (1908–1976), American mineralogist and petrologist Marjorie G. Horning (1917–2020), American biochemist and pharmacologist Marjorie Hoshelle (1918–1989), American actress Marjorie Maitland Howard (1898–1983), modeler, sculptor and book illustrator Marjorie Hoy (1941–2020), American entomologist and geneticist Marjorie Hughes (1925–2025), American singer in the Frankie Carle Orchestra Marjorie Hulsizer Copher (1892–1935), American dietitian Marjorie Hume (1900–1976), English film actress Marjorie Husain, Pakistani artist and critic Marjorie Husted (1892–1986), American home economist who helped develop the brand character Betty Crocker Marjorie Incledon, British artist Marjorie Ingall, American non-fiction writer Marjorie Jackson-Nelson (born 1931), Governor of South Australia and Australian athlete Marjorie Jacobs (1915–2013), Australian historian Marjorie Johnson (1919–2025), American baker, the "Blue Ribbon Baker" from Minnesota Marjorie Joyner (1896–1994), African American inventor and businesswoman Marjorie Kane (1909–1992), American film actress Marjorie Keller (1950–1994), American experimental filmmaker, author, activist, and film scholar Marjorie Kellogg (1922–2005), American author Marjorie B. Kellogg, American writer, author of Dragon Quartet Marjorie Kennedy (1915–2002), librarian Marjorie Pitter King (1921–1996), American politician from Washington Marjorie Korringa, igneous petrologist, volcanologist and structural geologist Marjorie Lajoie (born 2000), Canadian ice dancer Marjorie F. Lambert (1908–2006), American anthropologist and archaeologist Marjorie Lane (1912–2012), American singer and Broadway performer of the 1920s and 1930s Marjorie Lansing (1916–1998), American political scientist Marjorie Larney (born 1937), American athlete Marjorie Lawrence (1907–1979), Australian soprano Marjorie McKenzie Lawson (1912–2002), first black female judge in Washington D.C.