Marlee
Marlee was given to 564 girls in 2025, #536 among girls’ names; 17,923 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 17,500 Americans named Marlee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marlee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marlee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Marlee is “a female given name transferred from the surname.”
Variant of Marley.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marlee?
#536 among girls’ names, 2025
Marlee fell from #455 in 2015 to #536 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.39 to 0.35 per 1,000.
900 babies in 2008, the peak
Marlee peaked in 2008, when 900 babies were given it (890 girls, #367 among girls’ names). The 577 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 64% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 564 | #536 | 0.35 |
| 2024 | 605 | #510 | 0.37 |
| 2023 | 608 | #501 | 0.38 |
| 2022 | 696 | #455 | 0.42 |
| 2021 | 684 | #460 | 0.42 |
| 2020 | 714 | #430 | 0.44 |
| 2019 | 697 | #447 | 0.42 |
| 2018 | 654 | #482 | 0.38 |
| 2017 | 648 | #481 | 0.38 |
| 2016 | 708 | #454 | 0.40 |
Every recorded year (96)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 696 | #455 | 0.39 |
| 2014 | 676 | #470 | 0.38 |
| 2013 | 651 | #472 | 0.37 |
| 2012 | 571 | #533 | 0.32 |
| 2011 | 549 | #528 | 0.31 |
| 2010 | 581 | #514 | 0.33 |
| 2009 | 792 | #398 | 0.43 |
| 2008 | 890 | #367 | 0.47 |
| 2007 | 364 | #793 | 0.19 |
| 2006 | 359 | #766 | 0.19 |
| 2005 | 332 | #785 | 0.18 |
| 2004 | 305 | #821 | 0.17 |
| 2003 | 283 | #856 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 244 | #917 | 0.14 |
| 2001 | 230 | #956 | 0.13 |
| 2000 | 219 | #967 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 220 | #945 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 219 | #944 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 174 | #1,083 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 207 | #937 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 183 | #1,011 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 219 | #883 | 0.12 |
| 1993 | 303 | #707 | 0.17 |
| 1992 | 216 | #905 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 169 | #1,071 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 154 | #1,124 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 120 | #1,309 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 108 | #1,329 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 95 | #1,406 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 45 | #2,288 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,522 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,116 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,676 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,641 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,460 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,164 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,290 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 18 | #4,012 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,821 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,794 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,587 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,970 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,604 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,442 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,882 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,078 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,553 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,932 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 19 | #2,930 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 26 | #2,389 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,870 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,328 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,568 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,536 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,547 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,301 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,437 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 24 | #2,358 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,888 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,685 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,320 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 20 | #2,489 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,039 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,377 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 21 | #2,227 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 23 | #2,034 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,947 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 25 | #1,927 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,503 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,981 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,920 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,578 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,050 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,375 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 16 | #2,153 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,375 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,850 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,295 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,271 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,794 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,074 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,632 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,229 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,746 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,370 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,717 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marlee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 17,923 Americans recorded as Marlee, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 564 girls and 13 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Marlee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marlee, and how old are they?
17,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 17,923 Americans ever recorded as Marlee. The median Marlee alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 12,597 people named Marlee (12,401 women and girls, 196 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,884 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 70 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 258 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 263 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,870 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,340 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,750 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Marlee born?
The states with the most babies named Marlee are Texas, Florida and Georgia, with 21% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 40 | #755 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 40 | #467 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 34 | #313 | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 30 | #382 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 26 | #435 | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 25 | #326 | 1.6× |
| Alabama | 22 | #212 | 1.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | #506 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 20 | #433 | 0.9× |
| California | 18 | #1,342 | 0.5× |
Where Marlee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marlee is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1915 it was given 2.0 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 Marlee 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 124,297 babies since 1880, Marlee is the third most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 577 of their 2,208 babies (26%), the second most given that year.
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 Marlee
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 Marlee and names like it
- Compare Marlee and MarlaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMarlee peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marlee since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Marlee: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Marlee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Marlee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.