Marlana — girls' name

What the Data Says About Marlana

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,832 babies named Marlana between 1940 and 2023, spanning 84 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marlana currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1978, when 169 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marlana performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 805 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Marlana shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 92 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Marlana in 23 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marlana in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,832 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.