Marlane
Marlane was last recorded in 2002, when 5 babies were given it; 697 Americans have been recorded with it between 1932 and 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marlane by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marlane?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,157, in 2002; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
54 babies in 1949, the peak
Marlane peaked in 1949, when 54 girls were given it, #1,245 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 5 | #17,157 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,225 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,879 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,300 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,573 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,185 | 3.9 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,306 | 4.1 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,656 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,306 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,717 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 8 | #5,122 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,387 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,455 | 7.9 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,567 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,112 | 8.6 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,765 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,355 | 4.9 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,203 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 16 | #3,043 | 8.0 |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,791 | 8.8 |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,075 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 26 | #2,140 | 13.3 |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,930 | 15.4 |
| 1953 | 31 | #1,813 | 16.5 |
| 1952 | 29 | #1,877 | 15.6 |
| 1951 | 35 | #1,628 | 19.4 |
| 1950 | 44 | #1,388 | 25.7 |
| 1949 | 54 | #1,245 | 31.6 |
| 1948 | 35 | #1,589 | 20.6 |
| 1947 | 44 | #1,405 | 24.8 |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,952 | 14.6 |
| 1945 | 24 | #1,727 | 18.4 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,255 | 12.1 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,203 | 12.2 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,374 | 11.1 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,337 | 11.6 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,056 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,162 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,333 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,623 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,060 | 5.7 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,680 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,039 | 8.9 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,196 | 8.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marlane a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marlane has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marlane: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marlane, and how old are they?
An estimated 486 Americans named Marlane and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (70% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 65 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 650 people named Marlane (641 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 550 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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).
Where are babies named Marlane born?
The states with the most babies named Marlane are Pennsylvania, Ohio and California, with 97% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 112 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Ohio | 21 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 13 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Marlane is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marlane is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1932 it was given 2.5 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 Marlane with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 151,359 babies since 1880, Marlane is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 286 babies recorded by SSA was a Marlane (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Marlane
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 Marlane and names like it
- Compare Marlane and MarleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sMarlane peaked in 1949.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marlane since 1910.
- The top names of 1949The year the most babies were named Marlane.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Marlane alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.