Meaning not yet researched.
Marlee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 564 in 2025. Its best rank was #367 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #367 in 2008; #536 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Marlee in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#536 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #367.
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Marlee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 564 girls in 2025. Peak: #367 in 2008 · most girls in one year: 890 (2008).
In 2025, 564 US girls were named Marlee, making it the 536th most common girls’ name of the year, down 26 places from #510 in 2024. That is 41 fewer than the 605 girls named Marlee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #367, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 890. For comparison, it was #455 in 2015 and #2,035 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marlee in 96 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 5 babies. In all, 17,923 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,577 babies named Marlee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,578 US girls were named Marlee; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 714. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,850 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Marlee ranked highest in Idaho in 2025, at #151 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Marley (38,404 babies since 1880), Marlie (4,542 babies since 1880), Marleen (4,121 babies since 1880) and Marli (2,846 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Marlee 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 15 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | 14 | #151 | #421 |
| South Dakota | 7 | #181 | — |
| Mississippi | 13 | #212 | #260 |
| Alabama | 22 | #212 | #172 |
| Louisiana | 18 | #249 | #222 |
| West Virginia | 7 | #261 | — |
| Iowa | 13 | #269 | #397 |
| Nebraska | 8 | #282 | — |
| Oklahoma | 15 | #288 | #409 |
| Kansas | 11 | #313 | #709 |
| Georgia | 34 | #313 | #360 |
| Tennessee | 25 | #326 | #206 |
| Kentucky | 13 | #355 | #208 |
| Ohio | 30 | #382 | #252 |
| Missouri | 15 | #410 | #306 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #414 | #198 |
| Michigan | 20 | #433 | #393 |
| North Carolina | 26 | #435 | #405 |
| Indiana | 15 | #466 | #368 |
| Florida | 40 | #467 | #562 |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | #506 | #541 |
| Utah | 8 | #520 | #607 |
| Maryland | 10 | #536 | #480 |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #593 | #324 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #595 | — |
| South Carolina | 8 | #599 | #336 |
| Colorado | 8 | #683 | #672 |
| Virginia | 11 | #692 | #658 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #707 | #441 |
| Arizona | 9 | #735 | #339 |
| Texas | 40 | #755 | #542 |
| Washington | 8 | #785 | #682 |
| New Jersey | 9 | #819 | #570 |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,087 | #712 |
| California | 18 | #1,342 | #881 |
| New York | 10 | #1,386 | #1,048 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 564 | #536 | 13 | #6,678 |
| 2024 | 605 | #510 | 11 | #7,569 |
| 2023 | 608 | #501 | 11 | #7,573 |
| 2022 | 696 | #455 | 17 | #5,555 |
| 2021 | 684 | #460 | 16 | #5,697 |
| 2020 | 714 | #430 | 16 | #5,607 |
| 2019 | 697 | #447 | 18 | #5,277 |
| 2018 | 654 | #482 | 24 | #4,310 |
| 2017 | 648 | #481 | 20 | #4,869 |
| 2016 | 708 | #454 | 17 | #5,459 |
| 2015 | 696 | #455 | 21 | #4,650 |
| 2014 | 676 | #470 | 19 | #4,996 |
| 2013 | 651 | #472 | — | — |
| 2012 | 571 | #533 | 9 | #8,620 |
| 2011 | 549 | #528 | 7 | #10,359 |
| 2010 | 581 | #514 | 11 | #7,405 |
| 2009 | 792 | #398 | 17 | #5,466 |
| 2008 | 890 | #367 | 10 | #8,079 |
| 2007 | 364 | #793 | 7 | #10,490 |
| 2006 | 359 | #766 | — | — |
| 2005 | 332 | #785 | — | — |
| 2004 | 305 | #821 | 5 | #12,535 |
| 2003 | 283 | #856 | — | — |
| 2002 | 244 | #917 | — | — |
| 2001 | 230 | #957 | — | — |
| 2000 | 219 | #968 | — | — |
| 1999 | 220 | #947 | — | — |
| 1998 | 219 | #945 | — | — |
| 1997 | 174 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 1996 | 207 | #938 | — | — |
| 1995 | 183 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 1994 | 219 | #884 | — | — |
| 1993 | 303 | #707 | — | — |
| 1992 | 216 | #907 | — | — |
| 1991 | 169 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 1990 | 154 | #1,128 | — | — |
| 1989 | 120 | #1,312 | — | — |
| 1988 | 108 | #1,330 | — | — |
| 1987 | 95 | #1,407 | — | — |
| 1986 | 45 | #2,289 | — | — |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,523 | — | — |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,117 | — | — |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,677 | — | — |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,642 | — | — |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,461 | — | — |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,165 | — | — |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,291 | — | — |
| 1978 | 18 | #4,012 | — | — |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,822 | — | — |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,796 | — | — |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,588 | — | — |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,970 | — | — |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,604 | — | — |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,443 | — | — |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,884 | — | — |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,078 | — | — |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,554 | — | — |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,932 | — | — |
| 1967 | 19 | #2,930 | — | — |
| 1966 | 26 | #2,390 | — | — |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,871 | — | — |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,329 | — | — |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,569 | — | — |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,537 | — | — |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,548 | — | — |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,302 | — | — |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,438 | — | — |
| 1958 | 24 | #2,359 | — | — |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,889 | — | — |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,686 | — | — |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,321 | — | — |
| 1954 | 20 | #2,490 | — | — |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,040 | — | — |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,378 | — | — |
| 1951 | 21 | #2,228 | — | — |
| 1950 | 23 | #2,035 | — | — |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,948 | — | — |
| 1948 | 25 | #1,928 | — | — |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,504 | — | — |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,982 | — | — |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,921 | — | — |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,580 | — | — |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,051 | — | — |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,376 | — | — |
| 1941 | 16 | #2,154 | — | — |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,376 | — | — |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,850 | — | — |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,295 | — | — |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,271 | — | — |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,795 | — | — |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,075 | — | — |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,633 | — | — |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,231 | — | — |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,748 | — | — |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,372 | — | — |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,719 | — | — |
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).