Marilynn
#3,645 for girls in 2025, 41 births
- Peak · girls
- 1944 · 392 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 13,282since 1914
Marilynn over time
Rank among girls' names. Marilynn has never cracked the top 300 here.
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 | #3,645 | 41 |
| 2024 | #3,277 | 48 |
| 2023 | #3,476 | 45 |
| 2022 | #3,073 | 53 |
| 2021 | #3,678 | 41 |
| 2020 | #3,015 | 53 |
| 2019 | #2,891 | 57 |
| 2018 | #3,739 | 40 |
| 2017 | #2,546 | 69 |
| 2016 | #2,697 | 64 |
| 2015 | #2,685 | 66 |
| 2014 | #2,236 | 84 |
| 2013 | #2,870 | 59 |
| 2012 | #3,094 | 54 |
| 2011 | #3,999 | 37 |
| 2010 | #4,397 | 33 |
| 2009 | #5,709 | 24 |
| 2008 | #4,550 | 33 |
| 2007 | #4,567 | 32 |
| 2006 | #5,233 | 26 |
| 2005 | #4,958 | 26 |
| 2004 | #4,172 | 33 |
| 2003 | #5,235 | 23 |
| 2002 | #4,381 | 28 |
| 2001 | #6,067 | 18 |
| 2000 | #5,937 | 18 |
| 1999 | #4,718 | 23 |
| 1998 | #3,648 | 32 |
| 1997 | #3,036 | 39 |
| 1996 | #2,849 | 42 |
| 1995 | #3,087 | 37 |
| 1994 | #2,752 | 44 |
| 1993 | #2,676 | 45 |
| 1992 | #2,513 | 50 |
| 1991 | #3,369 | 32 |
| 1990 | #2,850 | 40 |
| 1989 | #2,527 | 45 |
| 1988 | #2,295 | 48 |
| 1987 | #2,915 | 33 |
| 1986 | #2,682 | 36 |
| 1985 | #3,852 | 21 |
| 1984 | #3,613 | 22 |
| 1983 | #3,151 | 26 |
| 1982 | #3,530 | 23 |
| 1981 | #3,625 | 22 |
| 1980 | #3,318 | 25 |
| 1979 | #3,668 | 21 |
| 1978 | #4,459 | 15 |
| 1977 | #2,124 | 44 |
| 1976 | #2,292 | 36 |
| 1975 | #2,680 | 28 |
| 1974 | #2,757 | 26 |
| 1973 | #2,019 | 40 |
| 1972 | #1,655 | 54 |
| 1971 | #1,877 | 46 |
| 1970 | #1,931 | 44 |
| 1969 | #1,897 | 43 |
| 1968 | #1,607 | 51 |
| 1967 | #1,947 | 36 |
| 1966 | #1,669 | 45 |
| 1965 | #1,448 | 58 |
| 1964 | #1,532 | 55 |
| 1963 | #1,435 | 60 |
| 1962 | #1,220 | 82 |
| 1961 | #1,014 | 114 |
| 1960 | #1,029 | 109 |
| 1959 | #724 | 193 |
| 1958 | #732 | 182 |
| 1957 | #631 | 238 |
| 1956 | #602 | 250 |
| 1955 | #561 | 263 |
| 1954 | #553 | 260 |
| 1953 | #508 | 288 |
| 1952 | #458 | 341 |
| 1951 | #462 | 327 |
| 1950 | #409 | 381 |
| 1949 | #422 | 346 |
| 1948 | #431 | 340 |
| 1947 | #401 | 407 |
| 1946 | #399 | 364 |
| 1945 | #415 | 299 |
| 1944 | #348 | 392 |
| 1943 | #382 | 361 |
| 1942 | #359 | 381 |
| 1941 | #355 | 348 |
| 1940 | #356 | 331 |
| 1939 | #389 | 290 |
| 1938 | #376 | 309 |
| 1937 | #394 | 271 |
| 1936 | #373 | 289 |
| 1935 | #394 | 266 |
| 1934 | #419 | 245 |
| 1933 | #426 | 228 |
| 1932 | #496 | 177 |
| 1931 | #532 | 154 |
| 1930 | #606 | 130 |
| 1929 | #612 | 125 |
| 1928 | #695 | 101 |
| 1927 | #552 | 164 |
| 1926 | #573 | 154 |
| 1925 | #639 | 130 |
| 1924 | #497 | 199 |
| 1923 | #433 | 243 |
| 1922 | #388 | 283 |
| 1921 | #657 | 125 |
| 1920 | #732 | 97 |
| 1919 | #814 | 74 |
| 1918 | #948 | 57 |
| 1917 | #1,337 | 30 |
| 1916 | #1,630 | 22 |
| 1915 | #1,523 | 23 |
| 1914 | #2,876 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Marilynn! It came in at #2,876, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1914, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Marilynn is popular in 1931
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Washington#198 · 1 in 1,244
- Michigan#200 · 1 in 1,541
- Illinois#264 · 1 in 2,511
- Iowa#290 · 1 in 2,615
- California#291 · 1 in 2,194
Best ever in a state: #123 in Montana, 1947.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Washington | #198 | 7 | 1 in 1,244 |
| Michigan | #200 | 25 | 1 in 1,541 |
| Illinois | #264 | 21 | 1 in 2,511 |
| Iowa | #290 | 7 | 1 in 2,615 |
| California | #291 | 16 | 1 in 2,194 |
| Ohio | #325 | 12 | 1 in 3,931 |
| Minnesota | #349 | 5 | 1 in 3,924 |
| Indiana | #366 | 5 | 1 in 4,735 |
| New York | #444 | 12 | 1 in 7,552 |
| Pennsylvania | #529 | 6 | 1 in 12,889 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Marilynn
- 368 spots since 2024 (#3,277 → #3,645)
- 630 spots since 2020 (#3,015 → #3,645)
- 960 spots since 2015 (#2,685 → #3,645)
- Biggest jump: 389 spots in 1918 (#1,337 → #948)
- Biggest drop: 305 spots in 1960 (#724 → #1,029)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1944 at #348 (392 births)
- Births halved by 1958, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 42 yrs · run 1918–1959
- Highest: 1 in 3,386 girls born in 1944 were named Marilynn (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 39,202 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 26.9% of all girls named Marilynn (3,569) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 213 | #814 (1919) | #1,521 |
| 1920s | 1,621 | #388 (1922) | #578 |
| 1930s | 2,359 | #373 (1936) | #441 |
| 1940s | 3,569 | #348 (1944) | #387 |
| 1950s | 2,723 | #409 (1950) | #564 |
| 1960s | 653 | #1,014 (1961) | #1,480 |
| 1970s | 354 | #1,655 (1972) | #2,546 |
| 1980s | 301 | #2,295 (1988) | #3,151 |
| 1990s | 384 | #2,513 (1992) | #3,150 |
| 2000s | 261 | #4,172 (2004) | #5,081 |
| 2010s | 563 | #2,236 (2014) | #3,115 |
| 2020s | 281 | #3,015 (2020) | #3,361 |
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.
Marilynn in 1931
Top girls' names in 1931
More about 1931
girls
1,064,728 girls got a published name in 1931; 1 in 6,914 of them was named Marilynn, which outranked 89.3% of the 4,979 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).