Marelyn
- #6,116 for girls in 2025, 19 births
- Peak · girls
- 1937 · 7 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 835since 1930
Marelyn over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Marelyn has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,116 | 19 |
| 2024 | #4,669 | 29 |
| 2023 | #6,169 | 19 |
| 2022 | #6,229 | 19 |
| 2021 | #6,967 | 16 |
| 2020 | #7,559 | 14 |
| 2019 | #6,176 | 19 |
| 2018 | #5,007 | 26 |
| 2017 | #7,840 | 14 |
| 2016 | #5,985 | 21 |
| 2015 | #4,725 | 29 |
| 2014 | #4,269 | 34 |
| 2013 | #5,644 | 23 |
| 2012 | #5,253 | 26 |
| 2011 | #3,781 | 40 |
| 2010 | #4,397 | 33 |
| 2009 | #3,561 | 45 |
| 2008 | #3,584 | 45 |
| 2007 | #4,567 | 32 |
| 2006 | #5,383 | 25 |
| 2005 | #4,581 | 29 |
| 2004 | #6,216 | 19 |
| 2003 | #5,235 | 23 |
| 2002 | #5,086 | 23 |
| 2001 | #5,570 | 20 |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 |
| 1996 | #5,771 | 16 |
| 1995 | #6,257 | 14 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 |
| 1990 | — | |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 |
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| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 |
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| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 |
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| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 |
| 1974 | — | |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 |
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| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 |
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| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 |
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| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 |
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| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 |
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| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 |
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| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 |
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| 1937 | #3,434 | 7 |
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| 1934 | #4,286 | 5 |
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| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 |
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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.
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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
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 17 | #3,434 (1937) | #4,090 |
| 1940s | 10 | #4,420 (1941) | #4,690 |
| 1950s | 10 | #5,301 (1950) | #5,527 |
| 1960s | 5 | #7,471 (1969) | #7,471 |
| 1970s | 25 | #6,080 (1973) | #7,886 |
| 1980s | 29 | #8,178 (1980) | #9,900 |
| 1990s | 84 | #5,771 (1996) | #9,327 |
| 2000s | 274 | #3,561 (2009) | #5,136 |
| 2010s | 265 | #3,781 (2011) | #5,308 |
| 2020s | 116 | #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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