In 2025, 28 US girls were named Marylou, making it the 4,835th most common girls’ name of the year, up 149 places from #4,984 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 27 girls named Marylou in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #350, reached in 1937. The most girls given the name in a single year was 376, in 1942. For comparison, it was #5,406 in 2015 and #499 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marylou in 126 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1898 with 5 babies. In all, 13,112 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 3,141 babies named Marylou.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 237 US girls were named Marylou; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 34. In 2025 that was about 1 in 57,402 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Marilou (3,231 babies since 1880) and Marilu (2,279 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Marylu, Marylue and Maralou are summarised on this page.