Meaning not yet researched.
Marilu: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,930 in 1929.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,930 in 1929; #7,022 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marilu in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,022 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1929, at #1,930.
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Marilu: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,930 in 1929 · most girls in one year: 55 (1991).
In 2025, 16 US girls were named Marilu, making it the 7,022nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 439 places from #7,461 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 15 girls named Marilu in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,930, reached in 1929. The most girls given the name in a single year was 55, in 1991. For comparison, it was #8,281 in 2015 and #3,161 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marilu in 104 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1919 with 5 babies. In all, 2,279 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 443 babies named Marilu.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 151 US girls were named Marilu; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 23. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,454 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Marilou (3,231 babies since 1880) and Marylou (13,112 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Marilu in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,022 | — | — |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,461 | — | — |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,832 | — | — |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,429 | — | — |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,583 | — | — |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,320 | — | — |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,514 | — | — |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,299 | — | — |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,604 | — | — |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,737 | — | — |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,281 | — | — |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,982 | — | — |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,768 | — | — |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,057 | — | — |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,071 | — | — |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,052 | — | — |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,235 | — | — |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,388 | — | — |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,331 | — | — |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,228 | — | — |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,447 | — | — |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,893 | — | — |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,277 | — | — |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,698 | — | — |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,162 | — | — |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,256 | — | — |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,853 | — | — |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,885 | — | — |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,075 | — | — |
| 1996 | 54 | #2,414 | — | — |
| 1995 | 42 | #2,865 | — | — |
| 1994 | 51 | #2,490 | — | — |
| 1993 | 47 | #2,625 | — | — |
| 1992 | 49 | #2,561 | — | — |
| 1991 | 55 | #2,336 | — | — |
| 1990 | 53 | #2,366 | — | — |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,551 | — | — |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,772 | — | — |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,230 | — | — |
| 1986 | 36 | #2,702 | — | — |
| 1985 | 41 | #2,425 | — | — |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,200 | — | — |
| 1983 | 51 | #2,008 | — | — |
| 1982 | 46 | #2,204 | — | — |
| 1981 | 30 | #2,956 | — | — |
| 1980 | 30 | #2,973 | — | — |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,211 | — | — |
| 1978 | 18 | #4,009 | — | — |
| 1977 | 31 | #2,696 | — | — |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,769 | — | — |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,586 | — | — |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,969 | — | — |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,089 | — | — |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,644 | — | — |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,239 | — | — |
| 1970 | 23 | #2,995 | — | — |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,553 | — | — |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,549 | — | — |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,429 | — | — |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,348 | — | — |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,664 | — | — |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,629 | — | — |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,738 | — | — |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,993 | — | — |
| 1961 | 26 | #2,394 | — | — |
| 1960 | 22 | #2,620 | — | — |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,203 | — | — |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,929 | — | — |
| 1957 | 19 | #2,701 | — | — |
| 1956 | 25 | #2,225 | — | — |
| 1955 | 27 | #2,089 | — | — |
| 1954 | 26 | #2,108 | — | — |
| 1953 | 20 | #2,408 | — | — |
| 1952 | 21 | #2,307 | — | — |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,884 | — | — |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,161 | — | — |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,188 | — | — |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,042 | — | — |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,417 | — | — |
| 1946 | 17 | #2,364 | — | — |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,303 | — | — |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,362 | — | — |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,975 | — | — |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,373 | — | — |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,975 | — | — |
| 1940 | 17 | #2,010 | — | — |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,859 | — | — |
| 1938 | 16 | #2,079 | — | — |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,270 | — | — |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,347 | — | — |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,676 | — | — |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,866 | — | — |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,807 | — | — |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,197 | — | — |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,265 | — | — |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,238 | — | — |
| 1929 | 19 | #1,930 | — | — |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,898 | — | — |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,647 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,346 | — | — |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,761 | — | — |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,585 | — | — |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,847 | — | — |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,290 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).