In 2025, 153 US girls were named Marlie, making it the 1,422nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 160 places from #1,582 in 2024. That is 20 more than the 133 girls named Marlie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #895, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 306. For comparison, it was #1,208 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marlie in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1937 with 5 babies. In all, 4,542 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,819 babies named Marlie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,526 US girls were named Marlie; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 185. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,505 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Marlie ranked highest in Iowa in 2025, at #421 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), Marlee (17,923 babies since 1880), Marli (2,846 babies since 1880) and Marly (1,665 babies since 1880).
Meaning
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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.