Girl

Marli

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#2,317
79 girls
2015
#1,959
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Marli: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 79 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,394 in 2008.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #1,394 in 2008; #2,317 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marli in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#2,317 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #1,394.

Babies in 2025
79
Since 1880
2,846
Years on record
60

Babies named Marli, every year since 1880

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Girls

Marli: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 79 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,394 in 2008 · most girls in one year: 171 (2008).

About the name Marli

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.

Meaning

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.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Mayerli (127).

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Marli in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Marli by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Alabama6#789—
Georgia7#1,310#1,686
Pennsylvania6#1,337#1,571
Florida7#1,810#2,007
Texas6#3,165#1,886

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
202579#2,317——
202494#2,0655#13,515
2023120#1,718——
2022105#1,913——
2021102#1,937——
202090#2,058——
2019102#1,938——
2018104#1,921——
2017104#1,938——
201694#2,090——
2015103#1,959——
2014106#1,903——
201384#2,227——
201278#2,393——
201179#2,361——
201092#2,147——
2009134#1,670——
2008171#1,394——
200788#2,241——
200674#2,501——
200565#2,618——
200460#2,730——
200347#3,164——
200246#3,125——
200143#3,234——
200047#3,003——
199938#3,355——
199838#3,271——
199735#3,339——
199619#5,210——
199521#4,784——
199433#3,413——
199330#3,644——
199226#4,041——
199132#3,415——
199017#5,445——
198914#6,021——
198820#4,418——
198727#3,383——
198613#5,642——
198515#4,998——
19848#7,858——
19838#7,758——
19825#11,582——
19816#9,870——
19808#7,844——
19798#7,743——
19787#8,187——
19778#7,293——
19757#7,653——
197412#4,905——
197315#4,091——
197114#4,241——
19709#5,658——
196910#4,917——
19686#6,721——
19655#7,159——
19645#7,419——
19635#7,253——
19546#5,524——

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).