Marlee
#536 for girls in 2025, 564 births · #6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births
Given to girls 98.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2008 · 890 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 17,654since 1915
Marlee over time
Rank among girls' names. Marlee 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 | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #536 | 564 | #6,446 | 13 |
| 2024 | #508 | 605 | #7,257 | 11 |
| 2023 | #501 | 608 | #7,289 | 11 |
| 2022 | #453 | 696 | #5,445 | 17 |
| 2021 | #459 | 684 | #5,562 | 16 |
| 2020 | #430 | 714 | #5,451 | 16 |
| 2019 | #447 | 697 | #5,153 | 18 |
| 2018 | #480 | 654 | #4,226 | 24 |
| 2017 | #480 | 648 | #4,746 | 20 |
| 2016 | #453 | 708 | #5,318 | 17 |
| 2015 | #455 | 696 | #4,545 | 21 |
| 2014 | #470 | 676 | #4,866 | 19 |
| 2013 | #471 | 651 | — | |
| 2012 | #530 | 571 | #8,158 | 9 |
| 2011 | #527 | 549 | #9,600 | 7 |
| 2010 | #514 | 581 | #7,087 | 11 |
| 2009 | #398 | 792 | #5,334 | 17 |
| 2008 | #367 | 890 | #7,698 | 10 |
| 2007 | #793 | 364 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | #765 | 359 | — | |
| 2005 | #782 | 332 | — | |
| 2004 | #821 | 305 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #853 | 283 | — | |
| 2002 | #916 | 244 | — | |
| 2001 | #956 | 230 | — | |
| 2000 | #966 | 219 | — | |
| 1999 | #946 | 220 | — | |
| 1998 | #941 | 219 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,079 | 174 | — | |
| 1996 | #936 | 207 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,014 | 183 | — | |
| 1994 | #884 | 219 | — | |
| 1993 | #705 | 303 | — | |
| 1992 | #904 | 216 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,071 | 169 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,127 | 154 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,311 | 120 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,327 | 108 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,404 | 95 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,265 | 45 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,484 | 39 | — | |
| 1984 | #4,966 | 14 | — | |
| 1983 | #5,457 | 12 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,527 | 16 | — | |
| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 | — | |
| 1980 | #5,912 | 11 | — | |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,924 | 18 | — | |
| 1977 | #4,652 | 14 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,614 | 13 | — | |
| 1975 | #3,514 | 19 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,922 | 24 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,565 | 28 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,300 | 13 | — | |
| 1971 | #3,789 | 16 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,030 | 22 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,461 | 16 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,874 | 20 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,868 | 19 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,357 | 26 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,733 | 12 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,244 | 16 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,458 | 14 | — | |
| 1962 | #3,438 | 14 | — | |
| 1961 | #3,460 | 14 | — | |
| 1960 | #3,212 | 15 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,395 | 23 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,322 | 24 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,823 | 17 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,622 | 19 | — | |
| 1955 | #3,225 | 13 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,450 | 20 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,921 | 14 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,327 | 20 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,182 | 21 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,002 | 23 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,850 | 13 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,901 | 25 | — | |
| 1947 | #2,448 | 17 | — | |
| 1946 | #2,880 | 12 | — | |
| 1945 | #1,874 | 20 | — | |
| 1944 | #3,378 | 8 | — | |
| 1943 | #1,994 | 19 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,311 | 15 | — | |
| 1941 | #2,096 | 16 | — | |
| 1940 | #2,297 | 13 | — | |
| 1939 | #1,797 | 19 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,225 | 14 | — | |
| 1937 | #2,196 | 14 | — | |
| 1936 | #2,689 | 10 | — | |
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| 1934 | #2,923 | 9 | — | |
| 1933 | #2,540 | 11 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,901 | 6 | — | |
| 1931 | #4,331 | 5 | — | |
| 1930 | #4,047 | 6 | — | |
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| 1915 | #4,274 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Marlee! It came in at #4,274, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1915–1929, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Marlee is popular in 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Alabama#169 · 1 in 703
- Arkansas#186 · 1 in 739
- Kentucky#194 · 1 in 807
- Tennessee#199 · 1 in 865
- Louisiana#216 · 1 in 852
Best ever in a state: #78 in Wyoming, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | #169 | 28 | 1 in 703 |
| Arkansas | #186 | 16 | 1 in 739 |
| Kentucky | #194 | 23 | 1 in 807 |
| Tennessee | #199 | 36 | 1 in 865 |
| Louisiana | #216 | 25 | 1 in 852 |
| Mississippi | #246 | 12 | 1 in 936 |
| Ohio | #247 | 48 | 1 in 1,100 |
| Nevada | #254 | 11 | 1 in 996 |
| Missouri | #298 | 22 | 1 in 1,236 |
| Wisconsin | #303 | 18 | 1 in 1,293 |
| South Carolina | #316 | 14 | 1 in 1,312 |
| Arizona | #325 | 21 | 1 in 1,472 |
| Indiana | #350 | 20 | 1 in 1,531 |
| Georgia | #355 | 30 | 1 in 1,623 |
| Iowa | #359 | 9 | 1 in 1,433 |
| Idaho | #363 | 5 | 1 in 1,293 |
| Oklahoma | #381 | 11 | 1 in 1,530 |
| Michigan | #383 | 23 | 1 in 1,834 |
| North Carolina | #394 | 25 | 1 in 1,816 |
| Minnesota | #422 | 13 | 1 in 1,882 |
| Maryland | #453 | 12 | 1 in 2,008 |
| New Jersey | #530 | 14 | 1 in 2,654 |
| Pennsylvania | #532 | 20 | 1 in 2,640 |
| Texas | #536 | 63 | 1 in 2,693 |
| Florida | #551 | 30 | 1 in 2,866 |
| Utah | #553 | 7 | 1 in 2,544 |
| Oregon | #585 | 6 | 1 in 2,538 |
| Colorado | #607 | 8 | 1 in 2,924 |
| Kansas | #615 | 5 | 1 in 2,605 |
| Virginia | #619 | 12 | 1 in 3,123 |
| Washington | #646 | 10 | 1 in 3,135 |
| Illinois | #686 | 16 | 1 in 3,658 |
| California | #869 | 39 | 1 in 5,265 |
| New York | #1,015 | 15 | 1 in 6,088 |
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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 Marlee
- 28 spots since 2024 (#508 → #536)
- 106 spots since 2020 (#430 → #536)
- 81 spots since 2015 (#455 → #536)
- Biggest jump: 426 spots in 2008 (#793 → #367)
- Biggest drop: 179 spots in 1994 (#705 → #884)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 2008 at #367 (890 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 32 yrs · run 1998–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,125 girls born in 2008 were named Marlee (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,850 girls born in 2025 (0.04%)
- 36.4% of all girls named Marlee (6,431) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,274 (1915) | #4,274 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 94 | #1,797 (1939) | #2,961 |
| 1940s | 158 | #1,874 (1945) | #2,403 |
| 1950s | 194 | #2,002 (1950) | #2,527 |
| 1960s | 166 | #2,357 (1966) | #3,211 |
| 1970s | 180 | #2,565 (1973) | #3,840 |
| 1980s | 473 | #1,311 (1989) | #3,491 |
| 1990s | 2,064 | #705 (1993) | #961 |
| 2000s | 4,018 | #367 (2008) | #762 |
| 2010s | 6,431 | #447 (2019) | #483 |
| 2020s | 3,871 | #430 (2020) | #481 |
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.
Marlee in 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 2,565 of them was named Marlee, which outranked 97.6% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 91,273 of them was named Marlee, which outranked 67.7% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
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- #4,407Zamar22
- #4,407Zarion22
- #4,545Marlee21
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- #4,545Advith21
- #4,545Akshar21
- #4,711Aarya20
- #4,711Abdimalik20
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Tied with 165 names at #4,545; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.