Marlana
Marlana was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,313 among girls’ names; 2,838 Americans have been recorded with it since 1940 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,670 Americans named Marlana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 33 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marlana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marlana?
#14,313 among girls’ names, 2025
Marlana fell from #10,611 in 2015 to #14,313 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.6 to 3.7 per million.
169 babies in 1978, the peak
Marlana peaked in 1978, when 169 girls were given it, #870 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,313 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,542 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,337 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,751 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,939 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,120 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,454 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,470 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,611 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,672 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | #18,299 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,507 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,667 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,555 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,979 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,806 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,241 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,718 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,185 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,348 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,890 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,141 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,285 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,244 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,684 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 50 | #2,713 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 40 | #3,013 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 49 | #2,574 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,763 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 61 | #2,196 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 55 | #2,336 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 75 | #1,880 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 62 | #2,145 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 70 | #1,962 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,861 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 71 | #1,780 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 86 | #1,506 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 97 | #1,350 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 83 | #1,485 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 74 | #1,547 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 72 | #1,559 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 86 | #1,424 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 87 | #1,414 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 78 | #1,523 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 144 | #991 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 169 | #870 | 0.11 |
| 1977 | 119 | #1,094 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,701 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,466 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 37 | #2,201 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,800 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 33 | #2,296 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 31 | #2,453 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,489 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 31 | #2,331 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 33 | #2,112 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 32 | #2,104 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 26 | #2,388 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 23 | #2,582 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 31 | #2,175 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 24 | #2,522 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 23 | #2,578 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,140 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,617 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,368 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,625 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,776 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,617 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,051 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,664 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,564 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,487 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,667 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,589 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,789 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,076 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,611 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,152 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,301 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,577 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,109 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,755 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,821 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,170 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marlana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marlana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 84 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marlana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marlana, and how old are they?
2,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 2,838 Americans ever recorded as Marlana. The median Marlana alive today is 42 years old; half are between 33 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 2,348 people named Marlana (2,348 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,684 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 23 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 225 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 808 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,110 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 411 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 90 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 151,550 babies since 1880, Marlana is the third most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 296 babies (2.0%), 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 Marlana
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 Marlana and names like it
- Compare Marlana and MarleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMarlana peaked in 1978.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marlana since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Marlana.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Marlana alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.