Meaning not yet researched.
Marlyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #464 in 1936.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #464 in 1936; #5,653 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marlyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,653 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1936, at #464.
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Marlyn: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 girls in 2025. Peak: #464 in 1936 · most girls in one year: 193 (1936).
In 2025, 22 US girls were named Marlyn, making it the 5,653rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 667 places from #6,320 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 19 girls named Marlyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #464, reached in 1936. That year also had the most girls given the name: 193. For comparison, it was #3,688 in 2015 and #967 in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Marlyn in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #601, reached in 1935. That year also had the most boys given the name: 94. For comparison, it was #13,330 in 2015 and #1,384 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marlyn in 113 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 7 babies. In all, 9,112 US babies have been given the name, 75% of them girls and 25% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1930s, with 2,311 babies named Marlyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 240 US girls were named Marlyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 38. In 2025 that was about 1 in 73,058 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Marilyn (374,857 babies since 1880), Marley (38,404 babies since 1880), Marlin (22,834 babies since 1880) and Marly (1,665 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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.
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 Marlyn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,653 | — | — |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,320 | — | — |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,885 | — | — |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,902 | — | — |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,347 | — | — |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,510 | 5 | #13,355 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,334 | — | — |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,722 | — | — |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,472 | 5 | #13,551 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,975 | — | — |
| 2015 | 42 | #3,688 | 5 | #13,330 |
| 2014 | 59 | #2,914 | — | — |
| 2013 | 64 | #2,718 | — | — |
| 2012 | 82 | #2,306 | 12 | #6,885 |
| 2011 | 51 | #3,252 | — | — |
| 2010 | 61 | #2,861 | — | — |
| 2009 | 73 | #2,561 | 9 | #8,751 |
| 2008 | 54 | #3,146 | — | — |
| 2007 | 77 | #2,452 | 9 | #8,661 |
| 2006 | 71 | #2,573 | 5 | #13,303 |
| 2005 | 66 | #2,596 | 5 | #12,653 |
| 2004 | 72 | #2,383 | 8 | #8,643 |
| 2003 | 62 | #2,597 | 5 | #12,072 |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,764 | 7 | #9,046 |
| 2001 | 55 | #2,727 | — | — |
| 2000 | 47 | #3,004 | 9 | #7,199 |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,838 | 10 | #6,335 |
| 1998 | 58 | #2,422 | 5 | #10,695 |
| 1997 | 74 | #1,959 | — | — |
| 1996 | 60 | #2,244 | — | — |
| 1995 | 62 | #2,173 | — | — |
| 1994 | 61 | #2,202 | — | — |
| 1993 | 60 | #2,209 | 6 | #8,303 |
| 1992 | 53 | #2,447 | 5 | #9,329 |
| 1991 | 78 | #1,829 | 10 | #5,365 |
| 1990 | 65 | #2,063 | 6 | #7,752 |
| 1989 | 56 | #2,184 | — | — |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,775 | 11 | #4,355 |
| 1987 | 59 | #1,936 | 5 | #7,708 |
| 1986 | 53 | #2,044 | — | — |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,525 | — | — |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,602 | 5 | #6,972 |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,831 | 6 | #5,959 |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,625 | 7 | #5,390 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,500 | 5 | #6,909 |
| 1980 | 36 | #2,632 | — | — |
| 1979 | 36 | #2,558 | 12 | #3,486 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,384 | — | — |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,134 | 8 | #4,437 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,153 | 7 | #4,741 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,929 | 8 | #4,171 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,646 | 5 | #5,714 |
| 1973 | 26 | #2,717 | 10 | #3,352 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,490 | 8 | #3,836 |
| 1971 | 51 | #1,765 | 7 | #4,223 |
| 1970 | 41 | #2,034 | 8 | #3,717 |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,160 | 5 | #4,791 |
| 1968 | 34 | #2,078 | 7 | #3,565 |
| 1967 | 42 | #1,804 | 7 | #3,440 |
| 1966 | 41 | #1,787 | 10 | #2,729 |
| 1965 | 38 | #1,879 | 12 | #2,428 |
| 1964 | 50 | #1,620 | 8 | #3,188 |
| 1963 | 59 | #1,456 | 12 | #2,492 |
| 1962 | 54 | #1,535 | 13 | #2,331 |
| 1961 | 58 | #1,479 | 16 | #2,113 |
| 1960 | 37 | #1,875 | 11 | #2,633 |
| 1959 | 58 | #1,413 | 22 | #1,746 |
| 1958 | 40 | #1,717 | 22 | #1,712 |
| 1957 | 48 | #1,566 | 25 | #1,616 |
| 1956 | 75 | #1,208 | 18 | #1,923 |
| 1955 | 70 | #1,203 | 28 | #1,475 |
| 1954 | 75 | #1,150 | 24 | #1,583 |
| 1953 | 79 | #1,087 | 22 | #1,662 |
| 1952 | 74 | #1,099 | 23 | #1,604 |
| 1951 | 75 | #1,073 | 23 | #1,584 |
| 1950 | 88 | #967 | 28 | #1,384 |
| 1949 | 67 | #1,108 | 28 | #1,395 |
| 1948 | 76 | #1,005 | 21 | #1,641 |
| 1947 | 107 | #849 | 29 | #1,387 |
| 1946 | 109 | #789 | 42 | #1,072 |
| 1945 | 78 | #853 | 41 | #1,004 |
| 1944 | 110 | #720 | 32 | #1,182 |
| 1943 | 138 | #648 | 40 | #1,083 |
| 1942 | 130 | #657 | 42 | #1,047 |
| 1941 | 109 | #674 | 37 | #1,085 |
| 1940 | 140 | #590 | 55 | #856 |
| 1939 | 121 | #616 | 68 | #729 |
| 1938 | 158 | #543 | 82 | #664 |
| 1937 | 183 | #484 | 82 | #657 |
| 1936 | 193 | #464 | 78 | #671 |
| 1935 | 184 | #470 | 94 | #601 |
| 1934 | 146 | #538 | 84 | #663 |
| 1933 | 156 | #510 | 86 | #627 |
| 1932 | 134 | #564 | 78 | #700 |
| 1931 | 130 | #578 | 86 | #639 |
| 1930 | 87 | #751 | 81 | #695 |
| 1929 | 78 | #803 | 68 | #785 |
| 1928 | 78 | #819 | 57 | #887 |
| 1927 | 63 | #960 | 52 | #971 |
| 1926 | 80 | #821 | 60 | #869 |
| 1925 | 65 | #928 | 49 | #977 |
| 1924 | 46 | #1,160 | 50 | #1,002 |
| 1923 | 47 | #1,123 | 34 | #1,250 |
| 1922 | 28 | #1,599 | 42 | #1,099 |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,258 | 28 | #1,436 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,539 | 22 | #1,674 |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,220 | 13 | #2,342 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,341 | 13 | #2,347 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,584 | 16 | #1,951 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,219 | 13 | #2,217 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,642 | 16 | #1,851 |
| 1914 | — | — | 6 | #3,128 |
| 1913 | — | — | 7 | #2,408 |
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).