Meaning not yet researched.
Marylin: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #607 in 1936.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #607 in 1936; #9,258 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marylin in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,258 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1936, at #607.
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Marylin: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 girls in 2025. Peak: #607 in 1936 · most girls in one year: 122 (1943).
In 2025, 11 US girls were named Marylin, making it the 9,258th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,543 places from #10,801 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 9 girls named Marylin in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #607, reached in 1936. The most girls given the name in a single year was 122, in 1943. For comparison, it was #5,242 in 2015 and #1,050 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marylin in 107 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 8 babies. In all, 4,379 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1930s, with 981 babies named Marylin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 143 US girls were named Marylin; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 146,115 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Marilyn (374,857 babies since 1880), Marylyn (3,336 babies since 1880) and Marolyn (1,381 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Marylene, Mayrelin and Marylane 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: Marylene (301), Mayrelin (13), Marylane (6), Marylean (5).
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 Marylin 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 | 11 | #9,258 | — | — |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,801 | — | — |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,829 | — | — |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,516 | — | — |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,803 | — | — |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,325 | — | — |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,254 | — | — |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,998 | — | — |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,726 | — | — |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,554 | — | — |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,242 | — | — |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,408 | — | — |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,057 | — | — |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,354 | — | — |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,483 | — | — |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,058 | — | — |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,645 | — | — |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,516 | — | — |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,837 | — | — |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,327 | — | — |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,235 | — | — |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,452 | — | — |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,379 | — | — |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,583 | — | — |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,783 | — | — |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,493 | — | — |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,677 | — | — |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,326 | — | — |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,198 | — | — |
| 1996 | 27 | #4,017 | — | — |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,638 | — | — |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,467 | — | — |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,844 | — | — |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,470 | — | — |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,930 | — | — |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,803 | — | — |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,205 | — | — |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,259 | — | — |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,604 | — | — |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,422 | — | — |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,910 | — | — |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,104 | — | — |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,077 | — | — |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,415 | — | — |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,868 | — | — |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,430 | — | — |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,508 | — | — |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,590 | — | — |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,561 | — | — |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,480 | — | — |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,063 | — | — |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,618 | — | — |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,803 | — | — |
| 1972 | 31 | #2,381 | — | — |
| 1971 | 32 | #2,408 | — | — |
| 1970 | 35 | #2,256 | — | — |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,624 | — | — |
| 1968 | 33 | #2,113 | — | — |
| 1967 | 19 | #2,934 | — | — |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,498 | — | — |
| 1965 | 30 | #2,189 | — | — |
| 1964 | 42 | #1,826 | — | — |
| 1963 | 40 | #1,854 | — | — |
| 1962 | 38 | #1,877 | — | — |
| 1961 | 44 | #1,735 | — | — |
| 1960 | 39 | #1,827 | — | — |
| 1959 | 42 | #1,710 | — | — |
| 1958 | 47 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 1957 | 51 | #1,501 | — | — |
| 1956 | 59 | #1,357 | — | — |
| 1955 | 70 | #1,204 | — | — |
| 1954 | 82 | #1,090 | — | — |
| 1953 | 71 | #1,149 | — | — |
| 1952 | 59 | #1,245 | — | — |
| 1951 | 63 | #1,181 | — | — |
| 1950 | 77 | #1,050 | — | — |
| 1949 | 74 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 1948 | 85 | #944 | — | — |
| 1947 | 107 | #850 | — | — |
| 1946 | 92 | #866 | — | — |
| 1945 | 76 | #867 | — | — |
| 1944 | 99 | #769 | — | — |
| 1943 | 122 | #687 | — | — |
| 1942 | 85 | #829 | — | — |
| 1941 | 108 | #677 | — | — |
| 1940 | 96 | #713 | — | — |
| 1939 | 115 | #639 | — | — |
| 1938 | 100 | #690 | — | — |
| 1937 | 118 | #625 | — | — |
| 1936 | 117 | #607 | — | — |
| 1935 | 80 | #760 | — | — |
| 1934 | 96 | #685 | — | — |
| 1933 | 98 | #664 | — | — |
| 1932 | 108 | #644 | — | — |
| 1931 | 78 | #760 | — | — |
| 1930 | 71 | #851 | — | — |
| 1929 | 42 | #1,146 | — | — |
| 1928 | 44 | #1,157 | — | — |
| 1927 | 43 | #1,185 | — | — |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,575 | — | — |
| 1925 | 35 | #1,363 | — | — |
| 1924 | 22 | #1,909 | — | — |
| 1923 | 26 | #1,658 | — | — |
| 1922 | 20 | #2,001 | — | — |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,087 | — | — |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,756 | — | — |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,737 | — | — |
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).