Margie’s Notebook: Personalized Journal for Margie
Margie's Notebook puts her name front and center, written in flowing script across a soft watercolor apple blossom design.
- 160 lined pages
- 6" x 9" paperback
- Watercolor apple blossom cover with "Margie's Notebook" on the front
- Printed and shipped by Amazon
Margie: meaning and origin
Margie is a pet form of Margaret, says Behind the Name, and Wikipedia says it can also be short for Marjorie or Margarita. All three come from the Greek word for “pearl”. Margie has been used as a name in its own right for more than a century, as the 1920 song “Margie” shows.
Nicknames and variants
Behind the Name lists Madge, Maggie, Marge, May, Meg, Peggy and Midge as related pet forms of Margaret. A Margie with a long full name can switch between several of them.
Famous people named Margie
Margie Gillis, born in Montreal in 1953, is a Canadian dancer and choreographer. Wikipedia says she is the daughter of two Canadian Olympic skiers, has created more than 100 pieces of modern dance, and in 1987 became the first modern dance artist awarded the Order of Canada. She performs her work as solos, duets and group pieces.
Is Margie a popular name?
Margie is a name of the 1920s to 1940s. US Social Security data has it at 109th in the 1920s, when more than 25,400 American girls were named Margie, 106th in the 1930s and 135th in the 1940s. Most Margies today are grandmothers and great-grandmothers.
Margie trivia
The song “Margie” was named after a real little girl. Wikipedia says the 1920 song took its title from the five-year-old daughter of singer Eddie Cantor, whose 1921 recording stayed at the top of the charts for five weeks. In the 1950s it was the unofficial anthem of the English soccer club Preston North End. The song also turned up in films such as Stella Dallas (1937) and Margie (1946).
Gift ideas that suit a Margie
- For Grandparents Day. A memory journal for a Margie who is a grandmother.
- For a dancer. A choreography notebook, in honor of Margie Gillis.
- For a soccer fan. A match log, after Preston North End’s old anthem.
- For a pearl anniversary. A notebook for a name that means pearl.
How Margie can use it
Any Margie, of any age. The 6" x 9" size is roomy enough for proper writing and small enough for a handbag or school bag. With 160 plain lined pages there’s no fixed layout, so it can be a diary, a gratitude journal, a study notebook, a recipe book or a home for to-do lists. Notebooks tend to multiply in drawers, but one with her name on the front is instantly hers.
The little things that make it hers
There’s something about seeing your own name in print. It makes a notebook feel like it belongs to you, which is a good reason to fill it. It also means Margie can pick hers out of a pile in a second, at school, at work or on the kitchen counter.
Frequently asked questions
How big is Margie’s Notebook? About the size of a trade paperback book: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm), 160 lined pages.
Where do I buy it? It’s sold on Amazon in the US, Australia and the UK. Amazon prints and ships each copy and handles delivery and returns.
Do you have other names? Yes, the same apple blossom design comes in hundreds of girls’ names. Start at all name notebooks or our personalized name notebooks guide.
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