Marleah
- #10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births
- Peak · girls
- 1938 · 8 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 439since 1915
Marleah over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Marleah has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
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 | #10,917 | 8 |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 |
| 2014 | #8,966 | 12 |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 |
| 2012 | #8,632 | 13 |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 |
| 2009 | #7,679 | 16 |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 |
| 2006 | #11,417 | 9 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 |
| 1987 | — | |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 |
| 1985 | — | |
| 1984 | — | |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 |
| 1979 | — | |
| 1978 | — | |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | — | |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 |
| 1974 | — | |
| 1973 | — | |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 |
| 1971 | — | |
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| 1965 | — | |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 |
| 1963 | — | |
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| 1960 | — | |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 |
| 1958 | — | |
| 1957 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 |
| 1954 | — | |
| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 |
| 1952 | — | |
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| 1950 | — | |
| 1949 | #4,673 | 6 |
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 |
| 1947 | #4,345 | 7 |
| 1946 | — | |
| 1945 | — | |
| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 |
| 1943 | #4,691 | 5 |
| 1942 | — | |
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| 1939 | — | |
| 1938 | #3,181 | 8 |
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| 1928 | #4,725 | 5 |
| 1927 | — | |
| 1926 | #4,306 | 6 |
| 1925 | — | |
| 1924 | #5,061 | 5 |
| 1923 | — | |
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| 1918 | — | |
| 1917 | #4,083 | 6 |
| 1916 | — | |
| 1915 | #4,274 | 5 |
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First appearance
1915
The first year at least five girls were named Marleah! It came in at #4,274, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1915–1916, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Marleah is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Marleah in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Marleah
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 2,474 spots since 2024 (#8,443 → #10,917)
- 2,536 spots since 2020 (#13,453 → #10,917)
- 769 spots since 2015 (#10,148 → #10,917)
Rise & fade · girls
23 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 1938 at #3,181 (8 births)
- Births halved by 1939, 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 114,820
- Highest: 1 in 114,820 girls born in 2009 were named Marleah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,181 in 1938, was only 1 in 137,932 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 21.6% of all girls named Marleah (95) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 11 | #4,083 (1917) | #4,179 |
| 1920s | 16 | #4,306 (1926) | #4,697 |
| 1930s | 8 | #3,181 (1938) | #3,181 |
| 1940s | 29 | #4,345 (1947) | #4,587 |
| 1950s | 22 | #4,595 (1953) | #5,655 |
| 1960s | 5 | #6,767 (1964) | #6,767 |
| 1970s | 11 | #7,292 (1972) | #8,180 |
| 1980s | 37 | #8,761 (1989) | #9,591 |
| 1990s | 65 | #6,867 (1990) | #11,001 |
| 2000s | 90 | #7,679 (2009) | #11,466 |
| 2010s | 95 | #8,632 (2012) | #11,153 |
| 2020s | 50 | #8,443 (2024) | #11,368 |
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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