Marlie

Where Marlie comes from

Marlie hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1937
    First appearance
    #4,255 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1989
    Marlie Packer born
    rugby union player
  3. 2000
    Marlie Viljoen born
    South African sprinter
  4. 2009
    Peak, #894
    306 babies named Marlie — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2017
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,529.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Marlie Packer · rugby union player, born 1989
  • Marlie Viljoen · South African sprinter, born 2000

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.