Meaning not yet researched.
Marlei: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 34 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,489 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,489 in 2020; #4,237 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marlei in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,237 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #2,489.
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Marlei: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 34 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,489 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 70 (2020).
In 2025, 34 US girls were named Marlei, making it the 4,237th most common girls’ name of the year, up 863 places from #5,100 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 26 girls named Marlei in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,489, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 70. For comparison, it was #3,049 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marlei in 21 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2002 with 7 babies. In all, 795 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 422 babies named Marlei.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 522 US girls were named Marlei; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 70. In 2025 that was about 1 in 47,273 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Marley (38,404 babies since 1880), Marlee (17,923 babies since 1880), Marleigh (6,111 babies since 1880) and Marlie (4,542 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 Marlei 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 | 34 | #4,237 | — | — |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,100 | — | — |
| 2023 | 47 | #3,410 | — | — |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,846 | — | — |
| 2021 | 62 | #2,774 | — | — |
| 2020 | 70 | #2,489 | 5 | #13,353 |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,776 | 6 | #11,643 |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,088 | — | — |
| 2017 | 55 | #3,001 | — | — |
| 2016 | 54 | #3,085 | — | — |
| 2015 | 56 | #3,049 | — | — |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,892 | — | — |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,251 | — | — |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,506 | — | — |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,267 | — | — |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,356 | — | — |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,181 | — | — |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,282 | — | — |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,574 | — | — |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,027 | — | — |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,117 | — | — |
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).