Marilynn
Marilynn was given to 41 girls in 2025, #3,684 among girls’ names; 13,282 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,380 Americans named Marilynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (56% of everyone recorded); the median is 72 years old and half are between 50 and 80.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marilynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marilynn?
#3,684 among girls’ names, 2025
Marilynn fell from #2,704 in 2015 to #3,684 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 37.0 to 25.5 per million.
407 babies in 1947, the peak
Marilynn peaked in 1947, when 407 girls were given it, #403 among girls’ names. The 41 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,684 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,316 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 45 | #3,507 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 53 | #3,107 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,716 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 53 | #3,051 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,916 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 40 | #3,770 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 69 | #2,564 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,729 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (112)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 66 | #2,704 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 84 | #2,250 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,891 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 54 | #3,122 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,040 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,463 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,828 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,607 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,629 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,331 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,055 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,239 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,342 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,457 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,216 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,125 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,810 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,697 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,073 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,875 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,130 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 44 | #2,779 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,701 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 50 | #2,532 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,408 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,873 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,547 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 48 | #2,312 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,948 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 36 | #2,702 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,934 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,675 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,207 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,602 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,692 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,378 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,733 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,584 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 44 | #2,150 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 36 | #2,323 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,718 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,804 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 40 | #2,047 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 54 | #1,662 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 46 | #1,894 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 44 | #1,943 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 43 | #1,909 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 51 | #1,617 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 36 | #1,970 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 45 | #1,687 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 58 | #1,454 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 55 | #1,543 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 60 | #1,443 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 82 | #1,222 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 114 | #1,019 | 0.06 |
| 1960 | 109 | #1,035 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 193 | #725 | 0.10 |
| 1958 | 182 | #733 | 0.09 |
| 1957 | 238 | #633 | 0.12 |
| 1956 | 250 | #602 | 0.12 |
| 1955 | 263 | #562 | 0.13 |
| 1954 | 260 | #552 | 0.13 |
| 1953 | 288 | #507 | 0.15 |
| 1952 | 341 | #457 | 0.18 |
| 1951 | 327 | #461 | 0.18 |
| 1950 | 381 | #408 | 0.22 |
| 1949 | 346 | #421 | 0.20 |
| 1948 | 340 | #432 | 0.20 |
| 1947 | 407 | #403 | 0.23 |
| 1946 | 364 | #399 | 0.23 |
| 1945 | 299 | #415 | 0.23 |
| 1944 | 392 | #348 | 0.30 |
| 1943 | 361 | #382 | 0.26 |
| 1942 | 381 | #359 | 0.28 |
| 1941 | 348 | #357 | 0.29 |
| 1940 | 331 | #357 | 0.29 |
| 1939 | 290 | #389 | 0.26 |
| 1938 | 309 | #377 | 0.28 |
| 1937 | 271 | #394 | 0.25 |
| 1936 | 289 | #373 | 0.28 |
| 1935 | 266 | #396 | 0.25 |
| 1934 | 245 | #421 | 0.23 |
| 1933 | 228 | #428 | 0.23 |
| 1932 | 177 | #497 | 0.17 |
| 1931 | 154 | #534 | 0.14 |
| 1930 | 130 | #608 | 0.12 |
| 1929 | 125 | #615 | 0.11 |
| 1928 | 101 | #699 | 0.09 |
| 1927 | 164 | #555 | 0.14 |
| 1926 | 154 | #575 | 0.13 |
| 1925 | 130 | #643 | 0.11 |
| 1924 | 199 | #500 | 0.16 |
| 1923 | 243 | #433 | 0.20 |
| 1922 | 283 | #388 | 0.24 |
| 1921 | 125 | #662 | 0.10 |
| 1920 | 97 | #734 | 0.08 |
| 1919 | 74 | #816 | 0.07 |
| 1918 | 57 | #957 | 0.05 |
| 1917 | 30 | #1,360 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 22 | #1,660 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 23 | #1,555 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,067 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marilynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marilynn 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 Marilynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marilynn, and how old are they?
7,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 56% of the 13,282 Americans ever recorded as Marilynn. The median Marilynn alive today is 72 years old; half are between 50 and 80.
The 2020 Census counted 8,929 people named Marilynn (8,923 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,437 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,640 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,410 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 565 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 551 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 474 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 716 |
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 Marilynn born?
The states with the most babies named Marilynn are California, Illinois and Michigan, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,389 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 1,141 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Michigan | 1,019 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| New York | 885 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 579 | #1,620 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 574 | #2,825 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 414 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 338 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Minnesota | 337 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Wisconsin | 335 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Marilynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marilynn is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1914 it was given 1.8 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 Marilynn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Marilynn?
Marilynn is a less common spelling of Marilyn: SSA has recorded 13,282 Marilynn and 374,857 Marilyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 406,422 babies since 1880, Marilynn is the second most given (3.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 41 of their 449 babies (9.1%), again the second most given.
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 Marilynn
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 Marilynn and names like it
- Compare Marilynn and MarilynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sMarilynn peaked in 1947.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marilynn since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Marilynn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Marilynn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.