Marleigh
Marleigh was given to 261 girls in 2025, #976 among girls’ names; 6,111 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,070 Americans named Marleigh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marleigh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marleigh mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Marleigh 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 Marleigh?
#976 among girls’ names, 2025
Marleigh fell from #902 in 2015 to #976 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.17 to 0.16 per 1,000.
419 babies in 2021, the peak
Marleigh peaked in 2021, when 419 girls were given it, #690 among girls’ names. The 261 births of 2025 are 62% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 261 | #976 | 0.16 |
| 2024 | 291 | #913 | 0.18 |
| 2023 | 288 | #921 | 0.18 |
| 2022 | 417 | #707 | 0.25 |
| 2021 | 419 | #690 | 0.26 |
| 2020 | 384 | #724 | 0.24 |
| 2019 | 249 | #1,033 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 282 | #944 | 0.17 |
| 2017 | 298 | #900 | 0.17 |
| 2016 | 298 | #924 | 0.17 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 306 | #902 | 0.17 |
| 2014 | 287 | #943 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 260 | #969 | 0.15 |
| 2012 | 216 | #1,144 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 247 | #1,014 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 208 | #1,173 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 273 | #977 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 249 | #1,051 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 99 | #2,064 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 109 | #1,874 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 77 | #2,328 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 74 | #2,333 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 58 | #2,726 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 56 | #2,728 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 59 | #2,584 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,102 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,225 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,267 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,504 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,197 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,934 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,947 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,922 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,521 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,562 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,195 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,298 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,520 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,704 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,071 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,128 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marleigh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marleigh has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marleigh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marleigh, and how old are they?
6,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,111 Americans ever recorded as Marleigh. The median Marleigh alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 3,553 people named Marleigh (3,543 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,118 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 186 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,860 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,020 |
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 Marleigh born?
The states with the most babies named Marleigh are Alabama, Texas and North Carolina, with 27% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 22 | #213 | 2.8× |
| Texas | 20 | #1,297 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 19 | #573 | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 18 | #603 | 1.8× |
| South Carolina | 17 | #306 | 2.0× |
| Ohio | 14 | #699 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,221 | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 10 | #465 | 2.7× |
| Tennessee | 10 | #739 | 1.5× |
| Maryland | 10 | #537 | 1.3× |
Where Marleigh is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marleigh is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1985 it was given 3.2 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 Marleigh with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Marleigh
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.
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