Marli
Marli was given to 79 girls in 2025, #2,317 among girls’ names; 2,846 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,810 Americans named Marli and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marli by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marli?
#2,317 among girls’ names, 2025
Marli fell from #1,959 in 2015 to #2,317 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 57.7 to 49.2 per million.
171 babies in 2008, the peak
Marli peaked in 2008, when 171 girls were given it, #1,394 among girls’ names. The 79 births of 2025 are 46% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79 | #2,317 | 49.2 |
| 2024 | 94 | #2,065 | 58.0 |
| 2023 | 120 | #1,718 | 74.8 |
| 2022 | 105 | #1,913 | 64.0 |
| 2021 | 102 | #1,937 | 62.2 |
| 2020 | 90 | #2,058 | 55.7 |
| 2019 | 102 | #1,938 | 60.8 |
| 2018 | 104 | #1,921 | 61.1 |
| 2017 | 104 | #1,938 | 60.2 |
| 2016 | 94 | #2,090 | 53.0 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 103 | #1,959 | 57.7 |
| 2014 | 106 | #1,903 | 59.3 |
| 2013 | 84 | #2,227 | 47.9 |
| 2012 | 78 | #2,393 | 44.3 |
| 2011 | 79 | #2,361 | 44.9 |
| 2010 | 92 | #2,147 | 51.8 |
| 2009 | 134 | #1,670 | 72.9 |
| 2008 | 171 | #1,394 | 90.4 |
| 2007 | 88 | #2,241 | 45.8 |
| 2006 | 74 | #2,501 | 38.9 |
| 2005 | 65 | #2,614 | 35.2 |
| 2004 | 60 | #2,726 | 32.7 |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,161 | 25.7 |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,121 | 25.6 |
| 2001 | 43 | #3,230 | 23.9 |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,999 | 25.9 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,352 | 21.4 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,268 | 21.5 |
| 1997 | 35 | #3,336 | 20.1 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,205 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,779 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,408 | 18.5 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,639 | 16.6 |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,036 | 14.1 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,409 | 17.1 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,440 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,015 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,413 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,380 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,639 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,996 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,854 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,756 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,578 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,868 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,843 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,741 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,185 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,291 | 5.2 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,651 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,904 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,090 | 10.3 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,239 | 8.4 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,657 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,916 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,719 | 3.7 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,158 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,418 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,252 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,522 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marli a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marli has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 60 years of records.
Girls and boys named Marli: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marli, and how old are they?
2,810 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,846 Americans ever recorded as Marli. The median Marli alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 2,528 people named Marli (2,477 women and girls, 51 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,248 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 13 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 102 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 287 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,120 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,280 |
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 Marli born?
The states with the most babies named Marli are Florida, Georgia and Texas, with 63% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 7 | #1,810 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,310 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 6 | #3,165 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,337 | 0.5× |
| Alabama | 6 | #789 | 0.6× |
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 Marli with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Marli?
Marli is a less common spelling of Marley: SSA has recorded 2,846 Marli and 38,404 Marley since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 118,636 babies since 1880, Marli is the seventh most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 79 of their 2,240 babies (3.5%), the sixth 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 Marli
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 Marli and names like it
- Compare Marli and MarleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMarli peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marli since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Marli.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Marli alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.