Marleigh — #913 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Marleigh

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,844 babies named Marleigh between 1985 and 2024, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marleigh currently holds the #913 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 418 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marleigh performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,650 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Marleigh shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 410 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Marleigh in 36 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marleigh 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 5,844 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.