Marleah

Peak · girls
1938 · 8 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
439
since 1915

Marleah over time

girls

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #3,181, 1938girls
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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#10,9178
2024#8,44312
2023#15,1945
2022#9,05611
2021#11,1468
2020#13,4536
2019#9,11211
2018#15,6825
2017#11,6158
2016#11,7818
2015#10,14810
2014#8,96612
2013#9,03612
2012#8,63213
2011#16,7645
2010#9,79011
2009#7,67916
2008#10,08411
2007#15,4916
2006#11,4179
2005#14,5026
2004#8,71612
2003#11,3258
2002#12,1877
2001#10,1029
2000#13,1546
1999#11,3857
1998#9,2609
1997#13,7245
1996#13,5185
1995#8,7669
1994#11,7786
1993#13,4425
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1991#10,2717
1990#6,86712
1989#8,7618
1988#9,2447
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1986#10,9125
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1983#9,0156
1982#10,5175
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1980#9,0956
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1975#9,0675
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1972#7,2926
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1964#6,7675
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1959#6,2455
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1956#5,9525
1955#5,8285
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1953#4,5957
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1949#4,6736
1948#4,6516
1947#4,3457
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1944#4,5745
1943#4,6915
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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
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s11#4,083 (1917)#4,179
1920s16#4,306 (1926)#4,697
1930s8#3,181 (1938)#3,181
1940s29#4,345 (1947)#4,587
1950s22#4,595 (1953)#5,655
1960s5#6,767 (1964)#6,767
1970s11#7,292 (1972)#8,180
1980s37#8,761 (1989)#9,591
1990s65#6,867 (1990)#11,001
2000s90#7,679 (2009)#11,466
2010s95#8,632 (2012)#11,153
2020s50#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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