Marlo
#1,833 for girls in 2025, 109 births · #1,708 for boys in 2025, 95 births
Given to girls 66.4% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1968 · 545 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,264since 1931
Marlo over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,833 | 109 | #1,708 | 95 |
| 2024 | #1,708 | 119 | #1,673 | 100 |
| 2023 | #1,965 | 100 | #1,632 | 106 |
| 2022 | #1,710 | 122 | #2,000 | 76 |
| 2021 | #1,926 | 102 | #1,853 | 83 |
| 2020 | #2,156 | 84 | #1,849 | 80 |
| 2019 | #1,763 | 116 | #1,917 | 77 |
| 2018 | #1,978 | 99 | #2,147 | 65 |
| 2017 | #2,401 | 75 | #2,566 | 49 |
| 2016 | #2,117 | 92 | #1,991 | 72 |
| 2015 | #2,382 | 77 | #2,600 | 47 |
| 2014 | #2,154 | 88 | #2,317 | 56 |
| 2013 | #2,083 | 92 | #2,562 | 47 |
| 2012 | #1,918 | 103 | #2,905 | 40 |
| 2011 | #2,346 | 79 | #2,852 | 41 |
| 2010 | #2,274 | 84 | #2,730 | 44 |
| 2009 | #2,592 | 71 | #3,399 | 32 |
| 2008 | #2,462 | 77 | #3,103 | 37 |
| 2007 | #3,786 | 42 | #3,313 | 33 |
| 2006 | #2,916 | 59 | #2,832 | 40 |
| 2005 | #3,509 | 42 | #3,710 | 25 |
| 2004 | #3,989 | 35 | #3,735 | 24 |
| 2003 | #3,805 | 36 | #2,674 | 37 |
| 2002 | #3,978 | 32 | #3,188 | 28 |
| 2001 | #4,025 | 31 | #3,061 | 29 |
| 2000 | #3,591 | 36 | #2,805 | 32 |
| 1999 | #3,970 | 29 | #2,665 | 32 |
| 1998 | #3,068 | 41 | #2,711 | 30 |
| 1997 | #2,977 | 40 | #3,160 | 23 |
| 1996 | #3,149 | 37 | #2,441 | 32 |
| 1995 | #3,585 | 30 | #2,210 | 36 |
| 1994 | #4,845 | 20 | #2,556 | 29 |
| 1993 | #4,393 | 23 | #2,786 | 25 |
| 1992 | #2,650 | 46 | #2,834 | 24 |
| 1991 | #3,369 | 32 | #2,295 | 31 |
| 1990 | #3,436 | 31 | #2,373 | 29 |
| 1989 | #3,477 | 29 | #2,154 | 32 |
| 1988 | #2,744 | 38 | #1,482 | 51 |
| 1987 | #2,657 | 37 | #1,793 | 36 |
| 1986 | #2,724 | 35 | #2,290 | 24 |
| 1985 | #1,948 | 56 | #2,116 | 26 |
| 1984 | #2,081 | 48 | #1,606 | 37 |
| 1983 | #1,858 | 56 | #1,327 | 49 |
| 1982 | #1,584 | 74 | #1,622 | 37 |
| 1981 | #1,790 | 62 | #1,309 | 50 |
| 1980 | #1,328 | 95 | #1,238 | 55 |
| 1979 | #1,323 | 94 | #1,077 | 68 |
| 1978 | #1,231 | 101 | #1,060 | 67 |
| 1977 | #992 | 137 | #1,071 | 65 |
| 1976 | #826 | 168 | #921 | 82 |
| 1975 | #748 | 191 | #1,170 | 52 |
| 1974 | #707 | 207 | #988 | 69 |
| 1973 | #614 | 251 | #904 | 78 |
| 1972 | #526 | 323 | #877 | 84 |
| 1971 | #432 | 481 | #1,181 | 48 |
| 1970 | #396 | 593 | #1,278 | 42 |
| 1969 | #432 | 498 | #1,326 | 36 |
| 1968 | #395 | 545 | #1,478 | 28 |
| 1967 | #503 | 353 | #1,449 | 28 |
| 1966 | #1,031 | 101 | #1,484 | 27 |
| 1965 | #3,149 | 16 | #1,559 | 25 |
| 1964 | #2,675 | 22 | #1,793 | 20 |
| 1963 | #3,176 | 16 | #1,792 | 20 |
| 1962 | #2,163 | 30 | #1,713 | 22 |
| 1961 | #3,460 | 14 | #1,570 | 26 |
| 1960 | #4,773 | 8 | #1,552 | 27 |
| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 | #1,620 | 24 |
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 | #1,511 | 27 |
| 1957 | #3,309 | 13 | #1,791 | 20 |
| 1956 | #3,186 | 14 | #1,568 | 25 |
| 1955 | #4,069 | 9 | #1,419 | 29 |
| 1954 | #2,450 | 20 | #1,361 | 31 |
| 1953 | #3,955 | 9 | #1,630 | 22 |
| 1952 | #2,921 | 14 | #1,297 | 33 |
| 1951 | #2,810 | 14 | #1,462 | 26 |
| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 | #1,879 | 16 |
| 1949 | #2,999 | 12 | #2,123 | 13 |
| 1948 | #2,416 | 17 | #1,943 | 15 |
| 1947 | #2,898 | 13 | #2,251 | 12 |
| 1946 | #2,597 | 14 | #2,534 | 9 |
| 1945 | #3,388 | 8 | #2,131 | 11 |
| 1944 | #3,378 | 8 | #2,195 | 11 |
| 1943 | #2,447 | 14 | #1,833 | 16 |
| 1942 | #2,817 | 11 | #1,946 | 14 |
| 1941 | #3,252 | 8 | #1,759 | 16 |
| 1940 | — | #1,983 | 13 | |
| 1939 | #3,782 | 6 | #1,795 | 15 |
| 1938 | #3,181 | 8 | #1,613 | 18 |
| 1937 | — | #1,576 | 19 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,639 | 17 | |
| 1935 | #3,431 | 7 | #1,273 | 28 |
| 1934 | #3,449 | 7 | #1,608 | 19 |
| 1933 | — | #1,707 | 17 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,922 | 15 | |
| 1931 | #3,226 | 8 | #2,207 | 12 |
| 1930 | — | #2,178 | 13 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,848 | 17 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,162 | 14 | |
| 1927 | — | #2,703 | 10 | |
| 1926 | — | #2,566 | 11 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,755 | 10 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,347 | 13 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,772 | 10 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,252 | 8 | |
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| 1920 | — | #2,967 | 9 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,665 | 10 | |
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| 1917 | — | #2,956 | 8 | |
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| 1915 | — | #3,082 | 7 | |
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First appearance
1931
The first year at least five girls were named Marlo! It came in at #3,226, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1932–1933, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 125 spots since 2024 (#1,708 → #1,833)
- 323 spots since 2020 (#2,156 → #1,833)
- 549 spots since 2015 (#2,382 → #1,833)
- Biggest jump: 528 spots in 1967 (#1,031 → #503)
- Biggest drop: 239 spots in 1978 (#992 → #1,231)
Rise & fade · girls
37 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1931
- Peaked 1968 at #395 (545 births)
- Births halved by 1973, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 11 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 1967–1977
Share of babies · girls
1 in 2,948
- Highest: 1 in 2,948 girls born in 1970 were named Marlo (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,746 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #395 in 1968, was only 1 in 3,010 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1970s
- 35.0% of all girls named Marlo (2,546) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2024
- Mostly boys until 2023, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 36 | #3,181 (1938) | #3,414 |
| 1940s | 105 | #2,416 (1948) | #2,910 |
| 1950s | 113 | #2,450 (1954) | #3,747 |
| 1960s | 1,603 | #395 (1968) | #2,176 |
| 1970s | 2,546 | #396 (1970) | #780 |
| 1980s | 530 | #1,328 (1980) | #2,219 |
| 1990s | 329 | #2,650 (1992) | #3,544 |
| 2000s | 461 | #2,462 (2008) | #3,465 |
| 2010s | 905 | #1,763 (2019) | #2,142 |
| 2020s | 636 | #1,708 (2024) | #1,883 |
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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