Meaning not yet researched.
Marilynn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 41 in 2025. Its best rank was #348 in 1944.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #348 in 1944; #3,685 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marilynn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,685 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1944, at #348.
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Marilynn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 41 girls in 2025. Peak: #348 in 1944 · most girls in one year: 407 (1947).
In 2025, 41 US girls were named Marilynn, making it the 3,685th most common girls’ name of the year, down 369 places from #3,316 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 48 girls named Marilynn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #348, reached in 1944. The most girls given the name in a single year was 407, in 1947. For comparison, it was #2,704 in 2015 and #409 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marilynn in 112 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 7 babies. In all, 13,282 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 3,569 babies named Marilynn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 511 US girls were named Marilynn; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 69. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,202 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Marilyn (374,857 babies since 1880), Marylyn (3,336 babies since 1880) and Marolyn (1,381 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Marylynne, Mariahlynn and Marylinn are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Marylynne (163), Mariahlynn (43), Marylinn (5).
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 Marilynn 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 | 41 | #3,685 | — | — |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,316 | — | — |
| 2023 | 45 | #3,508 | — | — |
| 2022 | 53 | #3,107 | — | — |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,717 | — | — |
| 2020 | 53 | #3,051 | — | — |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,916 | — | — |
| 2018 | 40 | #3,771 | — | — |
| 2017 | 69 | #2,564 | — | — |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,729 | — | — |
| 2015 | 66 | #2,704 | — | — |
| 2014 | 84 | #2,250 | — | — |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,892 | — | — |
| 2012 | 54 | #3,123 | — | — |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,041 | — | — |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,464 | — | — |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,830 | — | — |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,608 | — | — |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,630 | — | — |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,332 | — | — |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,059 | — | — |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,243 | — | — |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,347 | — | — |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,461 | — | — |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,221 | — | — |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,131 | — | — |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,816 | — | — |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,700 | — | — |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,076 | — | — |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,880 | — | — |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,135 | — | — |
| 1994 | 44 | #2,784 | — | — |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,706 | — | — |
| 1992 | 50 | #2,537 | — | — |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,414 | — | — |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,878 | — | — |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,552 | — | — |
| 1988 | 48 | #2,317 | — | — |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,950 | — | — |
| 1986 | 36 | #2,703 | — | — |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,935 | — | — |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,676 | — | — |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,208 | — | — |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,603 | — | — |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,693 | — | — |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,378 | — | — |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,734 | — | — |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,584 | — | — |
| 1977 | 44 | #2,150 | — | — |
| 1976 | 36 | #2,323 | — | — |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,718 | — | — |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,804 | — | — |
| 1973 | 40 | #2,047 | — | — |
| 1972 | 54 | #1,662 | — | — |
| 1971 | 46 | #1,894 | — | — |
| 1970 | 44 | #1,943 | — | — |
| 1969 | 43 | #1,909 | — | — |
| 1968 | 51 | #1,617 | — | — |
| 1967 | 36 | #1,970 | — | — |
| 1966 | 45 | #1,687 | — | — |
| 1965 | 58 | #1,454 | — | — |
| 1964 | 55 | #1,543 | — | — |
| 1963 | 60 | #1,443 | — | — |
| 1962 | 82 | #1,222 | — | — |
| 1961 | 114 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 1960 | 109 | #1,036 | — | — |
| 1959 | 193 | #725 | — | — |
| 1958 | 182 | #734 | — | — |
| 1957 | 238 | #634 | — | — |
| 1956 | 250 | #603 | — | — |
| 1955 | 263 | #563 | — | — |
| 1954 | 260 | #553 | — | — |
| 1953 | 288 | #508 | — | — |
| 1952 | 341 | #458 | — | — |
| 1951 | 327 | #462 | — | — |
| 1950 | 381 | #409 | — | — |
| 1949 | 346 | #422 | — | — |
| 1948 | 340 | #432 | — | — |
| 1947 | 407 | #403 | — | — |
| 1946 | 364 | #399 | — | — |
| 1945 | 299 | #415 | — | — |
| 1944 | 392 | #348 | — | — |
| 1943 | 361 | #382 | — | — |
| 1942 | 381 | #359 | — | — |
| 1941 | 348 | #357 | — | — |
| 1940 | 331 | #357 | — | — |
| 1939 | 290 | #389 | — | — |
| 1938 | 309 | #377 | — | — |
| 1937 | 271 | #394 | — | — |
| 1936 | 289 | #373 | — | — |
| 1935 | 266 | #396 | — | — |
| 1934 | 245 | #421 | — | — |
| 1933 | 228 | #428 | — | — |
| 1932 | 177 | #497 | — | — |
| 1931 | 154 | #534 | — | — |
| 1930 | 130 | #608 | — | — |
| 1929 | 125 | #615 | — | — |
| 1928 | 101 | #699 | — | — |
| 1927 | 164 | #555 | — | — |
| 1926 | 154 | #575 | — | — |
| 1925 | 130 | #643 | — | — |
| 1924 | 199 | #500 | — | — |
| 1923 | 243 | #433 | — | — |
| 1922 | 283 | #388 | — | — |
| 1921 | 125 | #662 | — | — |
| 1920 | 97 | #734 | — | — |
| 1919 | 74 | #816 | — | — |
| 1918 | 57 | #957 | — | — |
| 1917 | 30 | #1,360 | — | — |
| 1916 | 22 | #1,660 | — | — |
| 1915 | 23 | #1,555 | — | — |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,068 | — | — |
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).