Meaning not yet researched.
Marla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 92 in 2025. Its best rank was #193 in 1955.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #193 in 1955; #2,055 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,055 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1955, at #193.
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Marla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 92 girls in 2025. Peak: #193 in 1955 · most girls in one year: 1,725 (1955).
In 2025, 92 US girls were named Marla, making it the 2,055th most common girls’ name of the year, up 285 places from #2,340 in 2024. That is 13 more than the 79 girls named Marla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #193, reached in 1955. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,725. For comparison, it was #2,675 in 2015 and #299 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marla in 106 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 6 babies. In all, 38,819 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 11,452 babies named Marla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 762 US girls were named Marla; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 92. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,470 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Marla ranked highest in Wisconsin in 2025, at #762 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Marlaya and Marlay 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Marlaya (150), Marlay (7).
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 Marla in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 6 | #762 | — |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,165 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,166 | #1,200 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,188 | #1,569 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,247 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,548 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,622 | — |
| California | 12 | #1,809 | #2,642 |
| Texas | 5 | #3,633 | #2,152 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 92 | #2,055 | — | — |
| 2024 | 79 | #2,340 | — | — |
| 2023 | 88 | #2,170 | — | — |
| 2022 | 80 | #2,333 | — | — |
| 2021 | 75 | #2,408 | — | — |
| 2020 | 68 | #2,540 | — | — |
| 2019 | 77 | #2,346 | — | — |
| 2018 | 63 | #2,728 | — | — |
| 2017 | 71 | #2,526 | — | — |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,583 | — | — |
| 2015 | 67 | #2,675 | — | — |
| 2014 | 86 | #2,209 | — | — |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,110 | — | — |
| 2012 | 71 | #2,559 | — | — |
| 2011 | 68 | #2,629 | — | — |
| 2010 | 85 | #2,271 | — | — |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,720 | — | — |
| 2008 | 68 | #2,710 | — | — |
| 2007 | 97 | #2,095 | — | — |
| 2006 | 73 | #2,530 | — | — |
| 2005 | 89 | #2,101 | — | — |
| 2004 | 97 | #1,936 | — | — |
| 2003 | 86 | #2,079 | — | — |
| 2002 | 102 | #1,778 | — | — |
| 2001 | 112 | #1,638 | — | — |
| 2000 | 114 | #1,567 | — | — |
| 1999 | 96 | #1,711 | — | — |
| 1998 | 118 | #1,451 | — | — |
| 1997 | 123 | #1,388 | — | — |
| 1996 | 133 | #1,305 | — | — |
| 1995 | 143 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 1994 | 167 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 1993 | 160 | #1,123 | — | — |
| 1992 | 189 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 1991 | 237 | #846 | — | — |
| 1990 | 250 | #806 | — | — |
| 1989 | 191 | #937 | — | — |
| 1988 | 232 | #798 | — | — |
| 1987 | 240 | #748 | — | — |
| 1986 | 217 | #782 | — | — |
| 1985 | 237 | #729 | — | — |
| 1984 | 271 | #646 | — | — |
| 1983 | 284 | #615 | — | — |
| 1982 | 328 | #560 | 5 | #6,996 |
| 1981 | 359 | #530 | — | — |
| 1980 | 417 | #496 | — | — |
| 1979 | 425 | #480 | — | — |
| 1978 | 444 | #447 | — | — |
| 1977 | 494 | #415 | — | — |
| 1976 | 484 | #418 | — | — |
| 1975 | 568 | #365 | — | — |
| 1974 | 592 | #364 | — | — |
| 1973 | 788 | #298 | — | — |
| 1972 | 772 | #314 | — | — |
| 1971 | 956 | #293 | — | — |
| 1970 | 1,090 | #273 | 5 | #5,184 |
| 1969 | 1,066 | #270 | — | — |
| 1968 | 1,105 | #249 | — | — |
| 1967 | 1,067 | #257 | — | — |
| 1966 | 957 | #271 | 5 | #4,320 |
| 1965 | 901 | #296 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 1964 | 971 | #295 | — | — |
| 1963 | 1,087 | #274 | — | — |
| 1962 | 1,236 | #254 | — | — |
| 1961 | 1,138 | #268 | 7 | #3,560 |
| 1960 | 1,087 | #272 | — | — |
| 1959 | 1,167 | #258 | — | — |
| 1958 | 1,211 | #247 | — | — |
| 1957 | 1,329 | #231 | — | — |
| 1956 | 1,534 | #207 | 6 | #3,793 |
| 1955 | 1,725 | #193 | 5 | #4,197 |
| 1954 | 1,299 | #224 | — | — |
| 1953 | 957 | #262 | — | — |
| 1952 | 822 | #282 | — | — |
| 1951 | 716 | #294 | — | — |
| 1950 | 681 | #299 | — | — |
| 1949 | 458 | #367 | — | — |
| 1948 | 446 | #375 | — | — |
| 1947 | 418 | #391 | — | — |
| 1946 | 299 | #449 | — | — |
| 1945 | 229 | #476 | — | — |
| 1944 | 189 | #528 | — | — |
| 1943 | 182 | #561 | — | — |
| 1942 | 269 | #449 | — | — |
| 1941 | 198 | #495 | — | — |
| 1940 | 147 | #577 | — | — |
| 1939 | 115 | #638 | — | — |
| 1938 | 168 | #521 | — | — |
| 1937 | 132 | #588 | — | — |
| 1936 | 100 | #660 | — | — |
| 1935 | 55 | #943 | — | — |
| 1934 | 31 | #1,307 | — | — |
| 1933 | 33 | #1,254 | — | — |
| 1932 | 41 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,381 | — | — |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,796 | — | — |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,390 | — | — |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,641 | — | — |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,503 | — | — |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,661 | — | — |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,764 | — | — |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,848 | — | — |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,505 | — | — |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,480 | — | — |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,956 | — | — |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,849 | — | — |
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).