Marlie
Marlie was given to 153 girls in 2025, #1,422 among girls’ names; 4,542 Americans have been recorded with it since 1937 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,490 Americans named Marlie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marlie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marlie?
#1,422 among girls’ names, 2025
Marlie fell from #1,208 in 2015 to #1,422 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.12 to 0.10 per 1,000.
306 babies in 2009, the peak
Marlie peaked in 2009, when 306 girls were given it, #895 among girls’ names. The 153 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 153 | #1,422 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 133 | #1,582 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 132 | #1,592 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 150 | #1,472 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 162 | #1,368 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 157 | #1,395 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 162 | #1,389 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 148 | #1,485 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 144 | #1,532 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 185 | #1,299 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 207 | #1,208 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 203 | #1,202 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 223 | #1,100 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 160 | #1,428 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 187 | #1,275 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 200 | #1,213 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 306 | #895 | 0.17 |
| 2008 | 301 | #912 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 141 | #1,597 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 110 | #1,857 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 99 | #1,944 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 82 | #2,184 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 69 | #2,399 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 70 | #2,320 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 63 | #2,473 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 55 | #2,692 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 55 | #2,589 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,824 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,771 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,876 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,051 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,851 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 37 | #3,135 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 35 | #3,244 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,496 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,456 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,189 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,585 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,993 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,656 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,376 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,135 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,303 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,815 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,869 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,759 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,292 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,251 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,045 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,859 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,101 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,776 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,778 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,089 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,687 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marlie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marlie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marlie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marlie, and how old are they?
4,490 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,542 Americans ever recorded as Marlie. The median Marlie alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 3,577 people named Marlie (3,525 women and girls, 52 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,658 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 10 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 49 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 329 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,960 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,150 |
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 Marlie born?
The states with the most babies named Marlie are Ohio, North Carolina and California, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 11 | #856 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 10 | #956 | 0.7× |
| California | 9 | #2,214 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,641 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,164 | 1.2× |
| Iowa | 8 | #421 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,189 | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 7 | #889 | 0.4× |
| Texas | 6 | #3,166 | 0.6× |
| New York | 6 | #1,981 | 0.3× |
Where Marlie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marlie is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1937 it was given 1.7 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 Marlie 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 Marlie?
Marlie is a less common spelling of Marley: SSA has recorded 4,542 Marlie and 38,404 Marley since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 124,297 babies since 1880, Marlie is the sixth most given (3.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 153 of their 2,208 babies (6.9%), the fourth 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 Marlie
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 Marlie and names like it
- Compare Marlie and MarleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMarlie peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marlie since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Marlie.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Marlie alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.