Girls' name · since 2015
Marlayah
83 babies named Marlayah in U.S. Social Security records since 2015, with the highest year being 2022. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #29,262 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #11,734 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 83
- born since 2015
- 2020s
- peak decade
Marlayah currently ranks #11734 among girls' names in America, with 83 babies recorded since 2015.
Marlayah has 83 recorded births among girls since 2015, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #11734 as of the latest data, more common than 32% 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 2015 to 2025.
- #29,262 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #11,734 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 83 born since 2015
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Marlayah ranks #29,262 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #11,734 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 83 born since 2015, peaking in the 2020s.
- #29,262 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #11,734 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 83
- born since 2015
- 2020s
- peak decade
Marlayah's 83 recorded births place it above 59.49% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Marlayah compares
83 22nd 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
Marlayah's all-time total is 78% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Marlayah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 83 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 14 | 21 | 19,840 |
Marlayah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Marlayah splits its recorded history at 2020: 57% of all births land in the more recent half, 43% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2015 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2022 peak of 14 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Marlayah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–2025
- Peak year (2022)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 11 years of records
Marlayah by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (47 births, 57% of the file).
2020s was Marlayah's strongest decade.
47 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 57% of all-time use.
Marlayah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
36 births
- 2020s
2020s
47 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 47 births (57% 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, 2015–2025 (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 Marlayah 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.