Marelyn

Peak · girls
1937 · 7 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
835
since 1930

Marelyn over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Marelyn has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #3,434, 1937girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#6,11619
2024#4,66929
2023#6,16919
2022#6,22919
2021#6,96716
2020#7,55914
2019#6,17619
2018#5,00726
2017#7,84014
2016#5,98521
2015#4,72529
2014#4,26934
2013#5,64423
2012#5,25326
2011#3,78140
2010#4,39733
2009#3,56145
2008#3,58445
2007#4,56732
2006#5,38325
2005#4,58129
2004#6,21619
2003#5,23523
2002#5,08623
2001#5,57020
2000#7,58013
1999#8,80510
1998#12,4266
1997#9,0179
1996#5,77116
1995#6,25714
1994#11,7786
1993#9,5598
1992#11,7386
1991#8,5889
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1989#10,8476
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1986#9,5456
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1982#10,5175
1981#10,4115
1980#8,1787
1979#9,0106
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1973#6,0808
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First appearance
1930

The first year at least five girls were named Marelyn! It came in at #4,550, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1930–1936, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Marelyn is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Marelyn in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Marelyn
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 1,447 spots since 2024 (#4,669 → #6,116)
  • 1,443 spots since 2020 (#7,559 → #6,116)
  • 1,391 spots since 2015 (#4,725 → #6,116)
Rise & fade · girls
7 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1930
  • Peaked 1937 at #3,434 (7 births)
  • Births halved by 1938, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 40,825
  • Highest: 1 in 40,825 girls born in 2009 were named Marelyn (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 84,593 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #3,434 in 1937, was only 1 in 152,005 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 32.8% of all girls named Marelyn (274) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s17#3,434 (1937)#4,090
1940s10#4,420 (1941)#4,690
1950s10#5,301 (1950)#5,527
1960s5#7,471 (1969)#7,471
1970s25#6,080 (1973)#7,886
1980s29#8,178 (1980)#9,900
1990s84#5,771 (1996)#9,327
2000s274#3,561 (2009)#5,136
2010s265#3,781 (2011)#5,308
2020s116#4,669 (2024)#6,285

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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