Meaning not yet researched.
Marlon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 195 in 2025. Its best rank was #217 in 1972.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #217 in 1972; #1,105 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marlon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,105 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1972, at #217.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Marlon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 195 boys in 2025. Peak: #217 in 1972 · most boys in one year: 1,028 (1972).
In 2025, 195 US boys were named Marlon, making it the 1,105th most common boys’ name of the year, down 19 places from #1,086 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 201 boys named Marlon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #217, reached in 1972. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,028. For comparison, it was #819 in 2015 and #968 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marlon in 111 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 5 babies. In all, 31,292 US babies have been given the name, 1.1% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 7,187 babies named Marlon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,389 US boys were named Marlon; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 291. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,759 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Marlon ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #563 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Marion (261,713 babies since 1880), Marlo (10,944 babies since 1880), Marlene (130,932 babies since 1880) and Marlin (22,834 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mairlyn and Marlyin 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: Mairlyn (74), Marlyin (17).
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 Marlon in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 13 | #563 | #497 |
| Florida | 20 | #770 | #504 |
| California | 29 | #840 | #702 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #859 | — |
| Texas | 30 | #870 | #756 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,036 | #776 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,045 | #1,089 |
| New York | 11 | #1,092 | #788 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,093 | #901 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,104 | #955 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,479 | #769 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 195 | #1,105 |
| 2024 | — | — | 201 | #1,086 |
| 2023 | — | — | 240 | #943 |
| 2022 | — | — | 226 | #992 |
| 2021 | — | — | 213 | #1,030 |
| 2020 | — | — | 217 | #984 |
| 2019 | — | — | 260 | #856 |
| 2018 | — | — | 262 | #848 |
| 2017 | — | — | 291 | #793 |
| 2016 | — | — | 284 | #813 |
| 2015 | — | — | 277 | #819 |
| 2014 | — | — | 319 | #745 |
| 2013 | — | — | 327 | #719 |
| 2012 | — | — | 340 | #699 |
| 2011 | — | — | 367 | #638 |
| 2010 | — | — | 411 | #607 |
| 2009 | — | — | 382 | #651 |
| 2008 | — | — | 455 | #569 |
| 2007 | — | — | 467 | #551 |
| 2006 | — | — | 509 | #509 |
| 2005 | — | — | 479 | #514 |
| 2004 | — | — | 460 | #522 |
| 2003 | — | — | 462 | #519 |
| 2002 | — | — | 447 | #512 |
| 2001 | — | — | 454 | #503 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,340 | 452 | #507 |
| 1999 | — | — | 437 | #497 |
| 1998 | — | — | 442 | #493 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,233 | 479 | #462 |
| 1996 | — | — | 466 | #469 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,753 | 444 | #488 |
| 1994 | — | — | 445 | #479 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,898 | 436 | #482 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,751 | 452 | #475 |
| 1991 | — | — | 481 | #449 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,821 | 469 | #457 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,416 | 413 | #463 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,900 | 488 | #408 |
| 1987 | — | — | 415 | #433 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,503 | 402 | #432 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,334 | 509 | #361 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,755 | 476 | #370 |
| 1983 | — | — | 401 | #407 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,584 | 457 | #378 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,145 | 429 | #391 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,838 | 538 | #344 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,293 | 591 | #319 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,219 | 530 | #330 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,661 | 651 | #297 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,499 | 743 | #263 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,371 | 639 | #297 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,356 | 756 | #256 |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,302 | 904 | #233 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,756 | 1,028 | #217 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,721 | 766 | #277 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,659 | 458 | #378 |
| 1969 | — | — | 231 | #512 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,915 | 235 | #494 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,844 | 311 | #430 |
| 1966 | — | — | 259 | #478 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,253 | 261 | #480 |
| 1964 | — | — | 267 | #482 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,678 | 350 | #428 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,190 | 290 | #468 |
| 1961 | — | — | 303 | #466 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,966 | 296 | #462 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,997 | 269 | #477 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,857 | 345 | #424 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,099 | 293 | #450 |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,078 | 365 | #397 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,610 | 449 | #344 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,527 | 203 | #510 |
| 1953 | — | — | 84 | #777 |
| 1952 | — | — | 98 | #711 |
| 1951 | — | — | 68 | #851 |
| 1950 | — | — | 52 | #968 |
| 1949 | — | — | 36 | #1,195 |
| 1948 | — | — | 27 | #1,420 |
| 1947 | — | — | 30 | #1,353 |
| 1946 | — | — | 29 | #1,322 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,897 | 30 | #1,220 |
| 1944 | — | — | 22 | #1,466 |
| 1943 | — | — | 30 | #1,274 |
| 1942 | — | — | 40 | #1,083 |
| 1941 | — | — | 40 | #1,033 |
| 1940 | — | — | 19 | #1,606 |
| 1939 | — | — | 25 | #1,352 |
| 1938 | — | — | 20 | #1,548 |
| 1937 | — | — | 25 | #1,362 |
| 1936 | — | — | 27 | #1,289 |
| 1935 | — | — | 31 | #1,218 |
| 1934 | — | — | 21 | #1,538 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,635 | 26 | #1,325 |
| 1932 | — | — | 23 | #1,497 |
| 1931 | — | — | 25 | #1,415 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,001 | 22 | #1,587 |
| 1929 | — | — | 28 | #1,365 |
| 1928 | — | — | 25 | #1,502 |
| 1927 | — | — | 21 | #1,729 |
| 1926 | — | — | 16 | #2,043 |
| 1925 | — | — | 21 | #1,722 |
| 1924 | — | — | 23 | #1,660 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,548 | 15 | #2,190 |
| 1922 | — | — | 10 | #2,929 |
| 1921 | — | — | 13 | #2,456 |
| 1920 | — | — | 23 | #1,626 |
| 1919 | — | — | 9 | #3,028 |
| 1917 | — | — | 11 | #2,512 |
| 1916 | — | — | 8 | #3,086 |
| 1915 | — | — | 9 | #2,748 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,579 |
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).