Meaning not yet researched.
Marleigh: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 261 in 2025. Its best rank was #690 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #690 in 2021; #976 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marleigh in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#976 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #690.
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Marleigh: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 261 girls in 2025. Peak: #690 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 419 (2021).
In 2025, 261 US girls were named Marleigh, making it the 976th most common girls’ name of the year, down 63 places from #913 in 2024. That is 30 fewer than the 291 girls named Marleigh in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #690, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 419. For comparison, it was #902 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marleigh in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1985 with 6 babies. In all, 6,111 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,651 babies named Marleigh.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,187 US girls were named Marleigh; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 419. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,158 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Marleigh ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #213 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Marlei (795 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Marleigha, Marliah and Marliegh 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: Marleigha (25), Marliah (11), Marliegh (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 Marleigh 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 31 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 22 | #213 | #377 |
| South Carolina | 17 | #306 | #499 |
| Louisiana | 10 | #465 | #294 |
| Maryland | 10 | #537 | #1,001 |
| North Carolina | 19 | #573 | #753 |
| Georgia | 18 | #603 | #943 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #630 | #659 |
| Ohio | 14 | #699 | #684 |
| Indiana | 9 | #702 | #749 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #715 | #609 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #739 | #457 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #763 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #947 | — |
| Illinois | 9 | #979 | #1,033 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #981 | #1,195 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,135 | #659 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,221 | #705 |
| Texas | 20 | #1,297 | #1,133 |
| New York | 9 | #1,477 | #1,897 |
| California | 10 | #2,036 | #2,643 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 261 | #976 | — | — |
| 2024 | 291 | #913 | — | — |
| 2023 | 288 | #921 | — | — |
| 2022 | 417 | #707 | — | — |
| 2021 | 419 | #690 | — | — |
| 2020 | 384 | #724 | — | — |
| 2019 | 249 | #1,033 | — | — |
| 2018 | 282 | #944 | — | — |
| 2017 | 298 | #900 | — | — |
| 2016 | 298 | #924 | — | — |
| 2015 | 306 | #902 | — | — |
| 2014 | 287 | #943 | — | — |
| 2013 | 260 | #969 | — | — |
| 2012 | 216 | #1,144 | — | — |
| 2011 | 247 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 2010 | 208 | #1,173 | — | — |
| 2009 | 273 | #977 | — | — |
| 2008 | 249 | #1,051 | — | — |
| 2007 | 99 | #2,064 | — | — |
| 2006 | 109 | #1,874 | — | — |
| 2005 | 77 | #2,331 | — | — |
| 2004 | 74 | #2,336 | — | — |
| 2003 | 58 | #2,729 | — | — |
| 2002 | 56 | #2,731 | — | — |
| 2001 | 59 | #2,588 | — | — |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,106 | — | — |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,228 | — | — |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,270 | — | — |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,507 | — | — |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,202 | — | — |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,939 | — | — |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,952 | — | — |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,928 | — | — |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,527 | — | — |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,568 | — | — |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,200 | — | — |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,304 | — | — |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,525 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,709 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,076 | — | — |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,133 | — | — |
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).