Girls' name · since 2020
Marlani
Marlani has 77 recorded births since 2020 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2024 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #30,067 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #8,823 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 77
- born since 2020
- 2020s
- peak decade
77 babies have been named Marlani since 2020, making it today's #8823 girls' name.
Marlani has 77 recorded births among girls since 2020, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #8823 as of the latest data, more common than 49% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2020 to 2025.
- #30,067 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #8,823 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 77 born since 2020
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Marlani ranks #30,067 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #8,823 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 77 born since 2020, peaking in the 2020s.
- #30,067 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #8,823 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 77
- born since 2020
- 2020s
- peak decade
Marlani's 77 recorded births place it above 58.36% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Marlani compares
77 21st percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Marlani's all-time total is 80% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Marlani | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 77 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 21 | 21 | 19,840 |
Marlani's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Marlani's SSA record in two at 2023 and the more recent half accounts for 52% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 48%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2023, with only 7 births recorded -- set against the 2024 peak of 21, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Marlani popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 21
- Annual births at peak, across 6 years of records
Marlani by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (77 births, 100% of the file).
2020s was Marlani's strongest decade.
77 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Marlani births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2020s
2020s
77 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 77 births (100% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2020–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Marlani draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.