Marlana
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births
- Peak · girls
- 1978 · 169 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,838since 1940
Marlana over time
Rank among girls' names. Marlana has never cracked the top 800 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 | #13,208 | 6 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 |
| 2017 | #9,943 | 10 |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 |
| 2012 | #9,109 | 12 |
| 2011 | #7,436 | 16 |
| 2010 | #6,382 | 20 |
| 2009 | #6,811 | 19 |
| 2008 | #8,529 | 14 |
| 2007 | #6,093 | 22 |
| 2006 | #7,482 | 16 |
| 2005 | #7,891 | 14 |
| 2004 | #4,287 | 32 |
| 2003 | #4,804 | 26 |
| 2002 | #4,071 | 31 |
| 2001 | #3,256 | 42 |
| 2000 | #4,185 | 29 |
| 1999 | #3,639 | 33 |
| 1998 | #2,691 | 50 |
| 1997 | #2,977 | 40 |
| 1996 | #2,558 | 49 |
| 1995 | #2,735 | 44 |
| 1994 | #2,188 | 61 |
| 1993 | #2,322 | 55 |
| 1992 | #1,876 | 75 |
| 1991 | #2,136 | 62 |
| 1990 | #1,952 | 70 |
| 1989 | #1,851 | 71 |
| 1988 | #1,769 | 71 |
| 1987 | #1,498 | 86 |
| 1986 | #1,346 | 97 |
| 1985 | #1,483 | 83 |
| 1984 | #1,535 | 74 |
| 1983 | #1,552 | 72 |
| 1982 | #1,417 | 86 |
| 1981 | #1,406 | 87 |
| 1980 | #1,518 | 78 |
| 1979 | #989 | 144 |
| 1978 | #867 | 169 |
| 1977 | #1,088 | 119 |
| 1976 | #2,664 | 29 |
| 1975 | #3,404 | 20 |
| 1974 | #2,172 | 37 |
| 1973 | #2,753 | 25 |
| 1972 | #2,276 | 33 |
| 1971 | #2,427 | 31 |
| 1970 | #2,450 | 30 |
| 1969 | #2,296 | 31 |
| 1968 | #2,091 | 33 |
| 1967 | #2,079 | 32 |
| 1966 | #2,357 | 26 |
| 1965 | #2,538 | 23 |
| 1964 | #2,151 | 31 |
| 1963 | #2,489 | 24 |
| 1962 | #2,539 | 23 |
| 1961 | #3,060 | 17 |
| 1960 | #3,512 | 13 |
| 1959 | #3,254 | 14 |
| 1958 | #2,581 | 20 |
| 1957 | #4,536 | 8 |
| 1956 | #3,493 | 12 |
| 1955 | #2,971 | 15 |
| 1954 | #2,592 | 18 |
| 1953 | #2,516 | 18 |
| 1952 | #3,372 | 11 |
| 1951 | #4,385 | 7 |
| 1950 | #3,423 | 10 |
| 1949 | #3,612 | 9 |
| 1948 | #2,974 | 12 |
| 1947 | #3,448 | 10 |
| 1946 | #3,034 | 11 |
| 1945 | #3,132 | 9 |
| 1944 | #3,378 | 8 |
| 1943 | #4,691 | 5 |
| 1942 | #2,666 | 12 |
| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 |
| 1940 | #3,863 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Marlana! It came in at #3,863, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2022, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Marlana is popular in 1980
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Virginia#642 · 1 in 5,963
- Ohio#939 · 1 in 12,219
- California#2,267 · 1 in 34,741
Best ever in a state: #272 in West Virginia, 1979.
Show every state
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| Virginia | #642 | 5 | 1 in 5,963 |
| Ohio | #939 | 6 | 1 in 12,219 |
| California | #2,267 | 5 | 1 in 34,741 |
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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 Marlana
- 4,802 spots since 2020 (#8,406 → #13,208)
- 3,060 spots since 2015 (#10,148 → #13,208)
- Biggest jump: 221 spots in 1978 (#1,088 → #867)
- Biggest drop: 529 spots in 1980 (#989 → #1,518)
- Debuted 1940
- Peaked 1978 at #867 (169 births)
- Births halved by 1980, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 1978–1979
- Highest: 1 in 9,064 girls born in 1978 were named Marlana (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 28.4% of all girls named Marlana (805) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 87 | #2,666 (1942) | #3,522 |
| 1950s | 133 | #2,516 (1953) | #3,312 |
| 1960s | 253 | #2,079 (1967) | #2,511 |
| 1970s | 637 | #867 (1978) | #2,109 |
| 1980s | 805 | #1,346 (1986) | #1,538 |
| 1990s | 539 | #1,876 (1992) | #2,507 |
| 2000s | 245 | #3,256 (2001) | #5,741 |
| 2010s | 104 | #6,382 (2010) | #10,762 |
| 2020s | 35 | #8,406 (2020) | #11,014 |
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.
Marlana in 1980
Top girls' names in 1980
More about 1980
girls
1,660,307 girls got a published name in 1980; 1 in 21,286 of them was named Marlana, which outranked 87.5% of the 12,161 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,502Shoshana79
- #1,502Socorro79
- #1,502Wilma79
- #1,518Marlana78
- #1,518Ilana78
- #1,518Jeni78
- #1,518Juli78
- #1,528Adela77
- #1,528Agnes77
- #1,528Amity77
Tied with 9 names at #1,518; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.