Marlin — #1934 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Marlin

The Social Security Administration has registered 21,078 babies named Marlin between 1884 and 2024, spanning 141 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Marlin currently holds the #1934 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1935, when 386 babies received it in a single year. Marlin is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,647 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marlin performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 3,409 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Marlin shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 3,713 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Marlin in 39 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marlin 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 21,078 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.