Marilla
Marilla was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,165 among girls’ names; 802 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marilla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marilla mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Marilla is “a female given name from Hebrew, variant of Maria.”
An American fanciful variant of Maria.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marilla?
#8,165 among girls’ names, 2025
Marilla rose from #11,521 in 2015 to #8,165 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 8.1 per million.
27 babies in 2022, the peak
Marilla peaked in 2022, when 27 girls were given it, #4,983 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,165 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,791 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,073 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,983 | 16.5 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,334 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,436 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,055 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,993 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,595 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,228 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,521 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,594 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,413 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,894 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,091 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,360 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,446 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,012 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,575 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,330 | 4.4 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,960 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,628 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,766 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,854 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,789 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,876 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,635 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,350 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,406 | 3.8 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,434 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,769 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,319 | 3.1 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,227 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,825 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,974 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,210 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,100 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,248 | 4.4 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,741 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,806 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,150 | 7.0 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,993 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,354 | 11.3 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,505 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,927 | 8.1 |
| 1940 | 14 | #2,265 | 12.2 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,055 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,158 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,331 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,986 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,856 | 9.5 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,354 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,036 | 8.9 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,194 | 8.4 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,744 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,235 | 8.0 |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,063 | 9.0 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,535 | 5.2 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,500 | 11.7 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,657 | 11.0 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,554 | 7.4 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,277 | 13.6 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,545 | 7.5 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,292 | 5.8 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,575 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,257 | 8.3 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,098 | 6.2 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,949 | 9.5 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,036 | 4.6 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,953 | 9.6 |
| 1915 | 16 | #2,013 | 16.3 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,975 | 17.1 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,977 | 17.6 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,077 | 16.1 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,717 | 12.0 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,055 | 17.7 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,895 | 20.2 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,782 | 20.9 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,664 | 23.7 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,721 | 22.9 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,539 | 26.5 |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,294 | 33.4 |
| 1898 | 12 | #1,032 | 46.4 |
| 1897 | 13 | #920 | 55.5 |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,384 | 30.0 |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,202 | 35.9 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,393 | 28.3 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,460 | 27.0 |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,295 | 31.5 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,224 | 33.6 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,409 | 28.0 |
| 1884 | 6 | #990 | 46.5 |
| 1882 | 7 | #787 | 64.9 |
| 1880 | 5 | #905 | 54.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marilla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marilla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 94 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marilla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marilla, and how old are they?
An estimated 371 Americans named Marilla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (46% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 7 and 63. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 467 people named Marilla (465 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 329 born in the U.S. The Census count is 42% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 73,976 babies since 1880, Marilla is the eighth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 712 babies (1.8%), the seventh 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 Marilla
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 Marilla and names like it
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