Argie
Argie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 928th, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191933 births
- Best rank
- #928in 1883
- Since 1883
- 1,125people given the name
The story in the numbers
979 girls have been named Argie in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 33 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 33 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1930, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 146 boys have also been given it, 13% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1919, its biggest year
Argie was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1919 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Argie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Almetapeak 1924
- Trulapeak 1923
- Mozellapeak 1920
- Edrispeak 1915
- Theolapeak 1924
- Refugiapeak 1923
- Ceolapeak 1924
- Claricepeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.