Mariellen — girls' name
1,166 babies named Mariellen in U.S. Social Security records since 1915, with the highest year being 1958. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
30% of everyone ever named Mariellen was born in this single decade.
50 babies were named Mariellen in 1958 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Mariellen
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,166 babies named Mariellen between 1915 and 1998, spanning 84 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mariellen currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1998. The name reached its historical peak in 1958, when 50 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Mariellen performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 349 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Mariellen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 70 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Mariellen in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Mariellen 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 1,166 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.
Mariellen at a glance
Last recorded 1998Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Mariellen popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1998–1915
- Peak year (1958)
- 50
- Annual births at peak — across 84 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1998.
1,166 total births across 84 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1958 with 50 births in a single year.
Mariellen by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- 349 births that decade — 30% of Mariellen's all-time total
Mariellen decade highlights
- Peak decade 349 births
- Runner-up 222 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1950s was Mariellen's strongest decade
349 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 30% of all-time use.
Mariellen by state
Where Mariellen concentrates geographically — total births since 1915
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 70 | 6.0% |
| #2 | Pennsylvania | | 59 | 5.1% |
| #3 | Illinois | | 21 | 1.8% |
| #4 | Massachusetts | | 20 | 1.7% |
| #5 | New Jersey | | 17 | 1.5% |
| #6 | California | | 10 | 0.9% |
| #7 | Ohio | | 10 | 0.9% |
70 of 1,166 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 7 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 6.0% of nationwide
- Pennsylvania 5.1% of nationwide
- Illinois 1.8% of nationwide
- Massachusetts 1.7% of nationwide
- New Jersey 1.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 7 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 6.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1915–1998 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.