Marlina

Peak · girls
1978 · 41 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,173
since 1947

Marlina over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Marlina has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #2,237, 1978girls
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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#10,9178
2024—
2023#13,4626
2022—
2021#10,2929
2020#11,0908
2019#11,3568
2018#11,4278
2017#15,9025
2016#11,7818
2015#10,8669
2014#6,98717
2013#7,37216
2012#6,57619
2011#8,61413
2010#9,23112
2009#9,37912
2008#7,74216
2007#7,39417
2006#7,14217
2005#6,24519
2004#4,81627
2003#6,57617
2002#7,81613
2001#6,95615
2000#8,53411
1999#6,48415
1998#4,02328
1997#5,41718
1996#5,28018
1995#4,09925
1994#5,44517
1993#3,05238
1992#3,96826
1991#4,05925
1990#4,38022
1989#4,52220
1988#4,17221
1987#4,47418
1986#3,55424
1985#3,32826
1984#3,42324
1983#3,68721
1982#3,01729
1981#4,00519
1980#2,53737
1979#2,38739
1978#2,23741
1977#2,34138
1976#3,40720
1975#4,85412
1974#3,69517
1973#5,19110
1972#8,2925
1971#4,53412
1970#4,03814
1969#4,19812
1968#5,6427
1967#3,21116
1966#4,19810
1965#3,40214
1964#3,37915
1963#4,27210
1962#4,01111
1961#4,00911
1960#5,6966
1959#4,03110
1958#4,5208
1957#4,9187
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1955#4,0699
1954#4,2788
1953#3,9559
1952#4,9086
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1947#5,2955
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First appearance
1947

The first year at least five girls were named Marlina! It came in at #5,295, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1949–1951, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Marlina is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Marlina in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Marlina
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 173 spots since 2020 (#11,090 → #10,917)
  • 51 spots since 2015 (#10,866 → #10,917)
Rise & fade · girls
31 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1947
  • Peaked 1978 at #2,237 (41 births)
  • Births halved by 1981, 3 yrs 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 37,362
  • Highest: 1 in 37,362 girls born in 1978 were named Marlina (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1980s
  • 20.4% of all girls named Marlina (239) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s15#3,350 (1948)#4,323
1950s57#3,955 (1953)#4,383
1960s112#3,211 (1967)#4,202
1970s208#2,237 (1978)#4,098
1980s239#2,537 (1980)#3,672
1990s232#3,052 (1993)#4,621
2000s164#4,816 (2004)#7,260
2010s115#6,576 (2012)#10,011
2020s31#10,292 (2021)#11,440

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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