Marelin — girls' name

What the Data Says About Marelin

The Social Security Administration has registered 267 babies named Marelin between 1969 and 2022, spanning 54 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marelin currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 33 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marelin performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 137 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Marelin shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 19 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Marelin in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marelin in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 267 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.