Marlee — #509 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Marlee

The Social Security Administration has registered 17,082 babies named Marlee between 1915 and 2024, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marlee currently holds the #509 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 890 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marlee performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 6,429 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Marlee shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,247 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Marlee in 45 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marlee 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 17,082 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.