Marles
Marles was last recorded in 1947, when 5 babies were given it; 58 Americans have been recorded with it between 1924 and 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marles by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marles?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,813, in 1947; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
8 babies in 1926, the peak
Marles peaked in 1926, when 8 girls were given it, #3,780 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 5 | #5,813 | 2.8 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,056 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,447 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,684 | 4.6 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,625 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,048 | 6.0 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,997 | 4.4 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,330 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,780 | 6.7 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,838 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marles a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marles has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 10 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marles: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marles, and how old are they?
An estimated 15 Americans named Marles and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 108 people named Marles (82 women and girls, 26 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 24 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 10,365 babies since 1880, Marles is the sixth most given (<1% of them).
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 Marles
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 Marles and names like it
- Compare Marles and MarlysBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMarles peaked in 1926.
- The top names of 1926The year the most babies were named Marles.
- Names starting with MMost given first.