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Marlow: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 199 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,167 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 77% of babies named Marlow in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,167 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Marlow: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 199 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,167 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 199 (2025).
In 2025, 199 US girls were named Marlow, making it the 1,167th most common girls’ name of the year, up 156 places from #1,323 in 2024. That is 25 more than the 174 girls named Marlow in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,167, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 199. For comparison, it was #2,230 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 60 US boys were named Marlow, making it the 2,323rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 172 places from #2,495 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 55 boys named Marlow in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,301, reached in 1937. The most boys given the name in a single year was 60, in 2025. For comparison, it was #4,997 in 2015 and #2,167 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marlow in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1910 with 5 babies. In all, 4,096 US babies have been given the name, 46% of them girls and 54% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,211 babies named Marlow.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,315 US girls were named Marlow; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 199. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,077 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Marlow ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #521 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Marlowe (6,467 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Marlow 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 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 8 | #521 | — |
| Colorado | 11 | #526 | — |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #594 | — |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #673 | — |
| Alabama | 6 | #791 | — |
| Michigan | 9 | #839 | — |
| Washington | 7 | #875 | — |
| Missouri | 6 | #885 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #948 | — |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #958 | — |
| Arizona | 6 | #995 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,248 | — |
| New York | 9 | #1,478 | #1,346 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,488 | — |
| Texas | 16 | #1,510 | #1,775 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,539 | — |
| California | 15 | #1,545 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,602 | — |
| Florida | 6 | #2,060 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 199 | #1,167 | 60 | #2,323 |
| 2024 | 174 | #1,323 | 55 | #2,495 |
| 2023 | 165 | #1,370 | 58 | #2,378 |
| 2022 | 126 | #1,673 | 49 | #2,699 |
| 2021 | 149 | #1,447 | 58 | #2,365 |
| 2020 | 92 | #2,028 | 26 | #3,986 |
| 2019 | 123 | #1,707 | 43 | #2,883 |
| 2018 | 88 | #2,156 | 35 | #3,282 |
| 2017 | 106 | #1,913 | 19 | #5,046 |
| 2016 | 93 | #2,107 | 23 | #4,421 |
| 2015 | 85 | #2,230 | 19 | #4,997 |
| 2014 | 62 | #2,798 | 17 | #5,399 |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,962 | 26 | #3,927 |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,261 | 11 | #7,374 |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,536 | 22 | #4,452 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,565 | 25 | #4,068 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,182 | 19 | #5,041 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,528 | 14 | #6,294 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,462 | 17 | #5,349 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,166 | 17 | #5,226 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,960 | 18 | #4,759 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,341 | 10 | #7,349 |
| 2003 | — | — | 12 | #6,121 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,168 | 10 | #6,863 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,668 | 9 | #7,296 |
| 2000 | — | — | 9 | #7,198 |
| 1999 | — | — | 8 | #7,611 |
| 1998 | — | — | 8 | #7,293 |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #10,236 |
| 1996 | — | — | 16 | #4,122 |
| 1995 | — | — | 17 | #3,793 |
| 1994 | — | — | 12 | #5,003 |
| 1993 | — | — | 11 | #5,246 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,653 | 7 | #7,142 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #9,108 |
| 1990 | — | — | 13 | #4,321 |
| 1989 | — | — | 15 | #3,748 |
| 1988 | — | — | 17 | #3,159 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,711 | 14 | #3,451 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,081 | 12 | #3,797 |
| 1985 | — | — | 22 | #2,404 |
| 1984 | — | — | 24 | #2,213 |
| 1983 | — | — | 12 | #3,550 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,585 | 14 | #3,225 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,873 | 14 | #3,151 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,705 | 19 | #2,586 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,248 | 18 | #2,645 |
| 1978 | — | — | 45 | #1,384 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,188 | 35 | #1,594 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,387 | 34 | #1,592 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,487 | 31 | #1,650 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,607 | 40 | #1,364 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,276 | 39 | #1,340 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,314 | 37 | #1,404 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,354 | 38 | #1,393 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,956 | 28 | #1,645 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,620 | 28 | #1,549 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,013 | 13 | #2,406 |
| 1967 | 19 | #2,931 | 12 | #2,428 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,732 | 18 | #1,861 |
| 1965 | — | — | 13 | #2,334 |
| 1964 | — | — | 18 | #1,949 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,254 | 18 | #1,939 |
| 1962 | — | — | 19 | #1,882 |
| 1961 | — | — | 8 | #3,270 |
| 1960 | — | — | 21 | #1,800 |
| 1959 | — | — | 20 | #1,842 |
| 1958 | — | — | 20 | #1,818 |
| 1957 | — | — | 16 | #2,066 |
| 1956 | — | — | 17 | #1,994 |
| 1955 | — | — | 19 | #1,828 |
| 1954 | — | — | 18 | #1,870 |
| 1953 | — | — | 11 | #2,482 |
| 1952 | — | — | 8 | #3,014 |
| 1951 | — | — | 16 | #1,950 |
| 1950 | — | — | 13 | #2,167 |
| 1949 | — | — | 7 | #3,198 |
| 1948 | — | — | 12 | #2,288 |
| 1947 | — | — | 15 | #2,044 |
| 1946 | — | — | 9 | #2,633 |
| 1945 | — | — | 9 | #2,515 |
| 1944 | — | — | 12 | #2,150 |
| 1943 | — | — | 11 | #2,357 |
| 1942 | — | — | 19 | #1,661 |
| 1941 | — | — | 21 | #1,513 |
| 1940 | — | — | 23 | #1,423 |
| 1939 | — | — | 18 | #1,612 |
| 1938 | — | — | 21 | #1,508 |
| 1937 | — | — | 27 | #1,301 |
| 1936 | — | — | 21 | #1,490 |
| 1935 | — | — | 26 | #1,341 |
| 1934 | — | — | 21 | #1,539 |
| 1933 | — | — | 21 | #1,525 |
| 1932 | — | — | 23 | #1,498 |
| 1931 | — | — | 25 | #1,416 |
| 1930 | — | — | 17 | #1,870 |
| 1929 | — | — | 18 | #1,838 |
| 1928 | — | — | 7 | #3,585 |
| 1927 | — | — | 18 | #1,925 |
| 1926 | — | — | 20 | #1,764 |
| 1925 | — | — | 12 | #2,539 |
| 1924 | — | — | 20 | #1,821 |
| 1923 | — | — | 13 | #2,404 |
| 1922 | — | — | 9 | #3,158 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,742 |
| 1920 | — | — | 10 | #2,892 |
| 1919 | — | — | 11 | #2,608 |
| 1918 | — | — | 15 | #2,128 |
| 1917 | — | — | 10 | #2,657 |
| 1916 | — | — | 10 | #2,667 |
| 1915 | — | — | 10 | #2,558 |
| 1914 | — | — | 6 | #3,127 |
| 1913 | — | — | 12 | #1,641 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,173 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,760 |
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).