Meaning not yet researched.
Marley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 950 in 2025. Its best rank was #145 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #145 in 2008; #322 in 2025. About 88% of babies named Marley in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#322 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #145.
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Marley: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 950 girls in 2025. Peak: #145 in 2008 · most girls in one year: 2,359 (2008).
In 2025, 950 US girls were named Marley, making it the 322nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 36 places from #286 in 2024. That is 158 fewer than the 1,108 girls named Marley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #145, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,359. For comparison, it was #218 in 2015 and #5,082 in 1950.
In 2025, 131 US boys were named Marley, making it the 1,397th most common boys’ name of the year, down 169 places from #1,228 in 2024. That is 33 fewer than the 164 boys named Marley in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #766, reached in 2008. That year also had the most boys given the name: 291. For comparison, it was #863 in 2015 and #3,220 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marley in 98 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 7 babies. In all, 38,404 US babies have been given the name, 86% of them girls and 14% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 16,527 babies named Marley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 12,782 US girls were named Marley; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,500. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,692 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Marley ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #191 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Marlee (17,923 babies since 1880), Marlyn (9,112 babies since 1880), Marlie (4,542 babies since 1880) and Marli (2,846 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Marlea, Marleah and Marlia are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Marlea (777), Marleah (439), Marlia (88), Marlii (35), Marliee (21), Marliya (10), Marlye (5), Marleyah (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 Marley 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 12 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 14 | #191 | #116 |
| Nevada | 14 | #192 | #349 |
| West Virginia | 9 | #196 | #138 |
| Louisiana | 22 | #201 | #158 |
| South Carolina | 24 | #205 | #142 |
| Georgia | 49 | #217 | #150 |
| Idaho | 10 | #231 | #304 |
| Tennessee | 35 | #231 | #121 |
| Oklahoma | 17 | #236 | #130 |
| Utah | 20 | #237 | #159 |
| Montana | 5 | #238 | #255 |
| Indiana | 30 | #239 | #199 |
| Iowa | 15 | #243 | #247 |
| Minnesota | 23 | #247 | #272 |
| Michigan | 37 | #250 | #219 |
| Missouri | 24 | #260 | #138 |
| Wisconsin | 20 | #270 | #258 |
| Ohio | 40 | #278 | #185 |
| Alabama | 17 | #291 | #240 |
| Kentucky | 15 | #298 | #158 |
| Colorado | 20 | #314 | #202 |
| North Carolina | 35 | #317 | #195 |
| Pennsylvania | 34 | #322 | #241 |
| Florida | 52 | #354 | #277 |
| Virginia | 23 | #356 | #196 |
| Arkansas | 9 | #359 | #136 |
| Nebraska | 6 | #375 | #193 |
| Kansas | 9 | #393 | #190 |
| Maryland | 14 | #394 | #222 |
| New York | 42 | #417 | #375 |
| Illinois | 25 | #432 | #329 |
| Connecticut | 7 | #440 | #245 |
| Washington | 16 | #441 | #177 |
| Oregon | 8 | #465 | #273 |
| California | 73 | #465 | #275 |
| Arizona | 15 | #467 | #255 |
| Massachusetts | 11 | #506 | #436 |
| Texas | 63 | #509 | #232 |
| New Jersey | 14 | #557 | #335 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 950 | #322 | 131 | #1,397 |
| 2024 | 1,108 | #286 | 164 | #1,228 |
| 2023 | 1,108 | #284 | 166 | #1,204 |
| 2022 | 1,139 | #276 | 184 | #1,140 |
| 2021 | 1,379 | #215 | 180 | #1,133 |
| 2020 | 1,369 | #211 | 234 | #943 |
| 2019 | 1,336 | #233 | 192 | #1,065 |
| 2018 | 1,418 | #222 | 244 | #889 |
| 2017 | 1,475 | #209 | 220 | #950 |
| 2016 | 1,500 | #215 | 263 | #859 |
| 2015 | 1,499 | #218 | 262 | #863 |
| 2014 | 1,650 | #203 | 279 | #816 |
| 2013 | 1,533 | #210 | 239 | #879 |
| 2012 | 1,242 | #260 | 190 | #1,028 |
| 2011 | 1,237 | #259 | 182 | #1,045 |
| 2010 | 1,345 | #234 | 221 | #917 |
| 2009 | 2,171 | #149 | 286 | #790 |
| 2008 | 2,359 | #145 | 291 | #766 |
| 2007 | 839 | #391 | 139 | #1,268 |
| 2006 | 766 | #416 | 133 | #1,263 |
| 2005 | 651 | #473 | 93 | #1,532 |
| 2004 | 556 | #517 | 76 | #1,694 |
| 2003 | 486 | #574 | 84 | #1,534 |
| 2002 | 404 | #631 | 78 | #1,582 |
| 2001 | 423 | #596 | 60 | #1,855 |
| 2000 | 337 | #695 | 59 | #1,827 |
| 1999 | 317 | #716 | 54 | #1,843 |
| 1998 | 287 | #753 | 42 | #2,184 |
| 1997 | 226 | #893 | 40 | #2,191 |
| 1996 | 233 | #857 | 28 | #2,722 |
| 1995 | 210 | #903 | 23 | #3,065 |
| 1994 | 214 | #900 | 36 | #2,242 |
| 1993 | 176 | #1,047 | 33 | #2,327 |
| 1992 | 153 | #1,151 | 24 | #2,896 |
| 1991 | 135 | #1,254 | 10 | #5,364 |
| 1990 | 84 | #1,750 | 13 | #4,320 |
| 1989 | 89 | #1,580 | 19 | #3,168 |
| 1988 | 76 | #1,700 | 11 | #4,354 |
| 1987 | 64 | #1,827 | 9 | #4,807 |
| 1986 | 63 | #1,808 | 9 | #4,709 |
| 1985 | 86 | #1,456 | 11 | #3,949 |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,825 | 15 | #3,048 |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,830 | 9 | #4,364 |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,383 | 18 | #2,662 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,269 | 13 | #3,343 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,428 | 5 | #6,891 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,988 | — | — |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,585 | 6 | #5,524 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,857 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,807 | — | — |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,033 | 6 | #5,213 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,153 | — | — |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,738 | — | — |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,686 | — | — |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,001 | 5 | #5,377 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,143 | — | — |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,916 | 6 | #4,237 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,735 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,821 | — | — |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,124 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,158 | — | — |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,317 | 5 | #4,432 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,373 | 9 | #2,970 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,303 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,205 | 5 | #4,338 |
| 1956 | — | — | 10 | #2,730 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,400 | 5 | #4,198 |
| 1954 | — | — | 6 | #3,687 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,441 | — | — |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,669 | 10 | #2,593 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,082 | 7 | #3,220 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,524 | 5 | #4,032 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,734 | — | — |
| 1947 | — | — | 11 | #2,458 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,792 | — | — |
| 1944 | — | — | 6 | #3,326 |
| 1942 | — | — | 11 | #2,343 |
| 1939 | — | — | 10 | #2,389 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,166 | 8 | #2,790 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,102 | 8 | #2,813 |
| 1936 | — | — | 7 | #3,059 |
| 1934 | — | — | 13 | #2,085 |
| 1932 | — | — | 7 | #3,266 |
| 1929 | — | — | 8 | #3,152 |
| 1928 | — | — | 9 | #2,988 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #4,035 |
| 1926 | — | — | 7 | #3,601 |
| 1925 | — | — | 7 | #3,617 |
| 1924 | — | — | 10 | #2,950 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,351 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,716 |
| 1921 | — | — | 12 | #2,579 |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,388 |
| 1918 | — | — | 7 | #3,588 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,440 |
| 1916 | — | — | 7 | #3,384 |
| 1915 | — | — | 8 | #2,975 |
| 1914 | — | — | 7 | #2,814 |
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).