Meaning not yet researched.
Marylyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #418 in 1936.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #418 in 1936; #12,716 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Marylyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,716 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1936, at #418.
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Marylyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #418 in 1936 · most girls in one year: 238 (1936).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Marylyn, making it the 12,716th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #418, reached in 1936. That year also had the most girls given the name: 238. For comparison, it was #12,596 in 2015 and #1,230 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Marylyn in 105 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1910 with 5 babies. In all, 3,336 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1930s, with 1,021 babies named Marylyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 43 US girls were named Marylyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 11. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Marilyn (374,857 babies since 1880), Marilynn (13,282 babies since 1880), Marylin (4,379 babies since 1880) and Marolyn (1,381 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Marylyn 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 | 7 | #12,716 | — | — |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,984 | — | — |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,027 | — | — |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,506 | — | — |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,288 | — | — |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,847 | — | — |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,596 | — | — |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,681 | — | — |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,864 | — | — |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,204 | — | — |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,576 | — | — |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,268 | — | — |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,254 | — | — |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,630 | — | — |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,577 | — | — |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,170 | — | — |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,697 | — | — |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,318 | — | — |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,638 | — | — |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,695 | — | — |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,438 | — | — |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,101 | — | — |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,817 | — | — |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,703 | — | — |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,597 | — | — |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,855 | — | — |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,205 | — | — |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,593 | — | — |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,192 | — | — |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,571 | — | — |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,447 | — | — |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,198 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,948 | — | — |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,219 | — | — |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,154 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,769 | — | — |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,043 | — | — |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,416 | — | — |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,159 | — | — |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,172 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,261 | — | — |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,093 | — | — |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,166 | — | — |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,273 | — | — |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,760 | — | — |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,648 | — | — |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,741 | — | — |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,489 | — | — |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,453 | — | — |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,383 | — | — |
| 1969 | 23 | #2,811 | — | — |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,594 | — | — |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,590 | — | — |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,354 | — | — |
| 1965 | 21 | #2,723 | — | — |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,978 | — | — |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,280 | — | — |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,382 | — | — |
| 1961 | 25 | #2,448 | — | — |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,485 | — | — |
| 1959 | 26 | #2,269 | — | — |
| 1958 | 16 | #3,046 | — | — |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,463 | — | — |
| 1956 | 36 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,865 | — | — |
| 1954 | 43 | #1,552 | — | — |
| 1953 | 55 | #1,317 | — | — |
| 1952 | 60 | #1,232 | — | — |
| 1951 | 41 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 1950 | 57 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 1949 | 64 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 1948 | 60 | #1,168 | — | — |
| 1947 | 95 | #914 | — | — |
| 1946 | 86 | #906 | — | — |
| 1945 | 66 | #950 | — | — |
| 1944 | 85 | #828 | — | — |
| 1943 | 93 | #800 | — | — |
| 1942 | 92 | #797 | — | — |
| 1941 | 70 | #874 | — | — |
| 1940 | 79 | #801 | — | — |
| 1939 | 93 | #709 | — | — |
| 1938 | 93 | #712 | — | — |
| 1937 | 129 | #593 | — | — |
| 1936 | 238 | #418 | — | — |
| 1935 | 80 | #761 | — | — |
| 1934 | 80 | #749 | — | — |
| 1933 | 96 | #668 | — | — |
| 1932 | 98 | #687 | — | — |
| 1931 | 55 | #940 | — | — |
| 1930 | 59 | #952 | — | — |
| 1929 | 42 | #1,147 | — | — |
| 1928 | 49 | #1,078 | — | — |
| 1927 | 41 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 1926 | 37 | #1,297 | — | — |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,683 | — | — |
| 1924 | 43 | #1,217 | — | — |
| 1923 | 44 | #1,167 | — | — |
| 1922 | 21 | #1,941 | — | — |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,879 | — | — |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,540 | — | — |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,371 | — | — |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,420 | — | — |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,419 | — | — |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,667 | — | — |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,654 | — | — |
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).