Marilee
Marilee was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,164 among girls’ names; 7,434 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,980 Americans named Marilee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (67% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 53 and 76.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marilee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marilee?
#8,164 among girls’ names, 2025
Marilee fell from #6,378 in 2015 to #8,164 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.2 to 8.1 per million.
221 babies in 1947, the peak
Marilee peaked in 1947, when 221 girls were given it, #575 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,164 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,263 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,503 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,914 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,793 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,656 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,600 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,968 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,128 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,480 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (112)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,378 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,342 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,878 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,478 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,471 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,894 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,563 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,621 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,633 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,745 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,040 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,403 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,531 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,205 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,982 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,423 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,721 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,498 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,756 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,261 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,484 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,456 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,324 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,950 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,306 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,770 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,291 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,904 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 39 | #2,598 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 38 | #2,595 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 42 | #2,383 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 38 | #2,499 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 40 | #2,381 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 39 | #2,473 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 41 | #2,396 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 35 | #2,681 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 36 | #2,556 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 38 | #2,374 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,448 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 40 | #2,159 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 43 | #2,041 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 42 | #2,015 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 43 | #1,930 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 46 | #1,845 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 59 | #1,607 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 76 | #1,380 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 62 | #1,512 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 56 | #1,530 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 74 | #1,248 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 83 | #1,176 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 90 | #1,119 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 127 | #938 | 0.07 |
| 1963 | 145 | #872 | 0.08 |
| 1962 | 128 | #942 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 165 | #819 | 0.08 |
| 1960 | 165 | #807 | 0.08 |
| 1959 | 151 | #836 | 0.07 |
| 1958 | 180 | #741 | 0.09 |
| 1957 | 196 | #707 | 0.10 |
| 1956 | 156 | #793 | 0.08 |
| 1955 | 214 | #634 | 0.11 |
| 1954 | 210 | #628 | 0.11 |
| 1953 | 208 | #613 | 0.11 |
| 1952 | 201 | #621 | 0.11 |
| 1951 | 157 | #698 | 0.09 |
| 1950 | 145 | #713 | 0.08 |
| 1949 | 171 | #633 | 0.10 |
| 1948 | 190 | #607 | 0.11 |
| 1947 | 221 | #575 | 0.12 |
| 1946 | 171 | #609 | 0.11 |
| 1945 | 155 | #587 | 0.12 |
| 1944 | 155 | #590 | 0.12 |
| 1943 | 188 | #552 | 0.13 |
| 1942 | 192 | #535 | 0.14 |
| 1941 | 114 | #666 | 0.09 |
| 1940 | 127 | #625 | 0.11 |
| 1939 | 105 | #665 | 0.10 |
| 1938 | 128 | #606 | 0.12 |
| 1937 | 146 | #561 | 0.14 |
| 1936 | 88 | #715 | 0.08 |
| 1935 | 75 | #783 | 0.07 |
| 1934 | 77 | #767 | 0.07 |
| 1933 | 50 | #980 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 65 | #865 | 0.06 |
| 1931 | 72 | #801 | 0.07 |
| 1930 | 80 | #791 | 0.07 |
| 1929 | 49 | #1,050 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 58 | #978 | 0.05 |
| 1927 | 54 | #1,049 | 0.05 |
| 1926 | 45 | #1,143 | 0.04 |
| 1925 | 47 | #1,130 | 0.04 |
| 1924 | 53 | #1,074 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 34 | #1,375 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 24 | #1,760 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 28 | #1,602 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,229 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,126 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,619 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,391 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,952 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,485 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,844 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marilee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marilee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 112 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marilee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marilee, and how old are they?
4,980 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 67% of the 7,434 Americans ever recorded as Marilee. The median Marilee alive today is 67 years old; half are between 53 and 76.
The 2020 Census counted 5,704 people named Marilee (5,702 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,538 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 691 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,540 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 791 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 502 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 282 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 173 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Marilee born?
The states with the most babies named Marilee are California, Illinois and Washington, with 40% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Washington is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 747 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 513 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Washington | 293 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Michigan | 251 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 228 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Minnesota | 224 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 209 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 207 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 193 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Iowa | 181 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Marilee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marilee is most over-represented in Utah: since 1912 it was given 3.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Marilee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 81,728 babies since 1880, Marilee is the third most given (9.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 1,970 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Marilee
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Marilee and names like it
- Compare Marilee and MarleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sMarilee peaked in 1947.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marilee since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Marilee.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Marilee alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.