In 2025, 79 US girls were named Marli, making it the 2,317th most common girls’ name of the year, down 252 places from #2,065 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 94 girls named Marli in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,394, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 171. For comparison, it was #1,959 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marli in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1954 with 6 babies. In all, 2,846 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 946 babies named Marli.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 994 US girls were named Marli; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 120. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,345 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Marli ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #789 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), Marlin (22,834 babies since 1880), Marlee (17,923 babies since 1880) and Marlie (4,542 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mayerli are summarised on this page.