Marlee

Where Marlee comes from

Variant of Marley.
— Wiktionary's entry for Marlee
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #4,274 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1965
    Marlee Matlin born
    American actress
  3. 2008
    Peak, #367
    890 babies named Marlee — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Marlee Matlin · American actress, born 1965

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.