Marlan
Marlan was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,216 among boys’ names; 1,236 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marlan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marlan?
#13,216 among boys’ names, 2025
Marlan entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #13,216 in 2025.
33 babies in 1952, the peak
Marlan peaked in 1952, when 33 babies were given it (24 boys, #1,571 among boys’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,216 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 5 | #13,623 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,367 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,486 | 3.5 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,422 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,626 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,649 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,737 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 5 | #13,540 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,592 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (96)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 7 | #10,614 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,644 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,527 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,273 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,165 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,281 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,775 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,602 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,128 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,520 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,674 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,753 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,315 | 5.7 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,501 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,354 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,313 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,750 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 9 | #5,058 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,455 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 11 | #4,028 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,848 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,978 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,791 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 14 | #3,106 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,326 | 7.3 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,751 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 19 | #2,388 | 12.1 |
| 1975 | 18 | #2,411 | 11.5 |
| 1974 | 24 | #1,917 | 15.3 |
| 1973 | 25 | #1,804 | 16.0 |
| 1972 | 16 | #2,386 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 26 | #1,763 | 14.7 |
| 1970 | 14 | #2,586 | 7.5 |
| 1969 | 13 | #2,504 | 7.3 |
| 1968 | 15 | #2,158 | 8.6 |
| 1967 | 15 | #2,094 | 8.6 |
| 1966 | 13 | #2,294 | 7.3 |
| 1965 | 11 | #2,567 | 5.9 |
| 1964 | 18 | #1,947 | 9.0 |
| 1963 | 14 | #2,266 | 6.9 |
| 1962 | 22 | #1,738 | 10.6 |
| 1961 | 18 | #1,981 | 8.5 |
| 1960 | 16 | #2,092 | 7.5 |
| 1959 | 19 | #1,898 | 8.9 |
| 1958 | 14 | #2,227 | 6.6 |
| 1957 | 21 | #1,774 | 9.7 |
| 1956 | 17 | #1,992 | 8.0 |
| 1955 | 17 | #1,945 | 8.3 |
| 1954 | 18 | #1,868 | 8.8 |
| 1953 | 17 | #1,931 | 8.6 |
| 1952 | 24 | #1,571 | 12.3 |
| 1951 | 12 | #2,324 | 6.4 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,079 | 7.8 |
| 1949 | 12 | #2,296 | 6.8 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,079 | 8.0 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,132 | 7.7 |
| 1946 | 15 | #1,926 | 9.2 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,086 | 8.9 |
| 1944 | 17 | #1,713 | 12.5 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,244 | 8.4 |
| 1942 | 18 | #1,713 | 13.0 |
| 1941 | 27 | #1,291 | 22.0 |
| 1940 | 15 | #1,864 | 12.9 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,130 | 10.8 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,594 | 17.1 |
| 1937 | 26 | #1,334 | 24.4 |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,578 | 18.3 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,096 | 12.5 |
| 1934 | 22 | #1,483 | 21.3 |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,750 | 17.1 |
| 1932 | 15 | #1,971 | 14.4 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,674 | 18.3 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,719 | 9.1 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,406 | 11.2 |
| 1928 | 25 | #1,501 | 22.6 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,637 | 9.8 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,833 | 9.0 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,277 | 12.5 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,573 | 10.6 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,684 | 6.4 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,741 | 6.4 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,748 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,295 | 13.2 |
| 1918 | 6 | #3,999 | 5.9 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,346 | 5.4 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,270 | 8.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Marlan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,236 Americans recorded as Marlan, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Marlan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marlan, and how old are they?
An estimated 740 Americans named Marlan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (60% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 36 and 68. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 897 people named Marlan (131 women and girls, 766 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 810 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 55,362 babies since 1880, Marlan is the third most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 304 babies (1.6%), again the third 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 Marlan
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 Marlan and names like it
- Compare Marlan and MarlonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sMarlan peaked in 1952.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marlan since 1910.
- The top names of 1952The year the most babies were named Marlan.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Marlan alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.