Marley — #287 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Marley

The Social Security Administration has registered 32,082 babies named Marley between 1937 and 2024, spanning 88 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marley currently holds the #287 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 2,359 babies received it in a single year. Marley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5,225 additional births since 1914.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marley performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 14,232 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Marley shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 3,348 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Marley in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marley 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 32,082 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.