Marleigh

#975 for girls in 2025, 261 births

Peak · girls
2021 · 419 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
6,111
since 1985

Marleigh over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Marleigh has never cracked the top 600 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201985girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#975261
2024#912291
2023#921288
2022#706417
2021#689419
2020#723384
2019#1,029249
2018#943282
2017#899298
2016#921298
2015#901306
2014#941287
2013#968260
2012#1,136216
2011#1,012247
2010#1,165208
2009#973273
2008#1,049249
2007#2,05999
2006#1,865109
2005#2,31477
2004#2,32674
2003#2,70758
2002#2,70956
2001#2,57159
2000#3,07045
1999#3,18840
1998#3,22238
1997#3,44833
1996#3,14937
1995#3,87827
1994#4,84520
1993#4,82620
1992#6,31414
1991#5,39917
1990#5,06018
1989#8,7618
1988#6,27712
1987#9,8256
1986#10,9125
1985#9,3076
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First appearance
1985

The first year at least five girls were named Marleigh! It came in at #9,307, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1985–1987, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.

Where Marleigh is popular in 1985

No state had 5 or more girls named Marleigh in 1985, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Marleigh
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 63 spots since 2024 (#912 → #975)
  • 252 spots since 2020 (#723 → #975)
  • 74 spots since 2015 (#901 → #975)
  • Biggest jump: 306 spots in 2020 (#1,029 → #723)
  • Biggest drop: 215 spots in 2023 (#706 → #921)
Rise & fade · girls
36 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1985
  • Peaked 2021 at #689 (419 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 13 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 2013–2018
Share of babies · girls
1 in 3,916
  • Highest: 1 in 3,916 girls born in 2021 were named Marleigh (0.03%)
  • Latest: 1 in 6,158 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 43.4% of all girls named Marleigh (2,651) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s37#6,277 (1988)#9,016
1990s264#3,149 (1996)#4,333
2000s1,099#973 (2009)#2,164
2010s2,651#899 (2017)#992
2020s2,060#689 (2021)#821

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.

Marleigh in 1985

girls
#9,307
6 births · 1 in 286,805 girls

Top girls' names in 1985

  1. #1Jessica48,345
  2. #2Ashley47,010
  3. #3Jennifer42,661
  4. #4Amanda39,055
  5. #5Sarah24,879
  6. #6Stephanie23,243
  7. #7Nicole22,966
  8. #8Heather21,151
  9. #9Elizabeth20,545
  10. #10Megan20,013
  11. #9,307Marleigh6
More about 1985

girls

1,720,828 girls got a published name in 1985; 1 in 286,805 of them was named Marleigh, which outranked 25.6% of the 12,505 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Marleigh
  1. #8,318Zofia7
  2. #8,318Zora7
  3. #8,318Zorina7
  4. #9,307Marleigh6
  5. #9,307Abi6
  6. #9,307Adaline6
  7. #9,307Adana6
  8. #10,677Aamanda5
  9. #10,677Aarthi5
  10. #10,677Abbagail5

Tied with 1,369 names at #9,307; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1984
Risers
  1. ↑ 7,360Kayleigh#8,153 → #793
  2. ↑ 1,675Madison#2,299 → #624
  3. ↑ 1,167Cierra#1,633 → #466
  4. ↑ 1,002Ciera#1,703 → #701
  5. ↑ 787Krystina#1,332 → #545
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,164Grisel#784 → #1,948
  2. ↓ 893Ciji#963 → #1,856
  3. ↓ 419Falon#914 → #1,333
  4. ↓ 364Alesia#969 → #1,333
  5. ↓ 362Echo#845 → #1,207

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1985 →