Marline
Marline was last recorded in 2017, when 6 babies were given it; 1,524 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,010 Americans named Marline and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (66% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 39 and 74.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marline by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marline?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,271, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
39 babies in 1935, the peak
Marline peaked in 1935, when 39 girls were given it, #1,129 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | #15,271 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,721 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,043 | 3.9 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,040 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,320 | 6.9 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,160 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,884 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,659 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,842 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,127 | 7.2 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 14 | #7,581 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,937 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,020 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,020 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,521 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,283 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,865 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,415 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,222 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,522 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,359 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,926 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,814 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,217 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,595 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,919 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,771 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,643 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,052 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,271 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,462 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,883 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,995 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,379 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,822 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,236 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,805 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,614 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,738 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,220 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,737 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,163 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,307 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 27 | #2,402 | 16.5 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,278 | 9.7 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,481 | 8.3 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,359 | 8.5 |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,791 | 11.1 |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,827 | 10.4 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,882 | 9.7 |
| 1961 | 24 | #2,515 | 11.9 |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,696 | 10.4 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,204 | 7.4 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,426 | 11.4 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,889 | 8.3 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,686 | 9.5 |
| 1955 | 23 | #2,315 | 11.8 |
| 1954 | 32 | #1,862 | 16.5 |
| 1953 | 24 | #2,160 | 12.8 |
| 1952 | 24 | #2,102 | 12.9 |
| 1951 | 24 | #2,047 | 13.3 |
| 1950 | 27 | #1,860 | 15.8 |
| 1949 | 25 | #1,946 | 14.6 |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,387 | 10.6 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,254 | 11.3 |
| 1946 | 22 | #2,003 | 14.0 |
| 1945 | 31 | #1,470 | 23.7 |
| 1944 | 28 | #1,566 | 21.1 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,204 | 12.2 |
| 1942 | 28 | #1,578 | 20.7 |
| 1941 | 32 | #1,376 | 26.5 |
| 1940 | 26 | #1,538 | 22.7 |
| 1939 | 29 | #1,393 | 26.4 |
| 1938 | 39 | #1,177 | 35.3 |
| 1937 | 38 | #1,173 | 35.7 |
| 1936 | 36 | #1,196 | 34.6 |
| 1935 | 39 | #1,129 | 37.2 |
| 1934 | 30 | #1,338 | 28.7 |
| 1933 | 32 | #1,281 | 31.7 |
| 1932 | 26 | #1,506 | 24.4 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,997 | 16.0 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,371 | 5.3 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,354 | 7.8 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,400 | 12.6 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,444 | 7.6 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,500 | 4.1 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,910 | 9.6 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,675 | 10.8 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,814 | 5.0 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,248 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,678 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,626 | 5.2 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,718 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marline a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marline has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 93 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marline: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marline, and how old are they?
1,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 66% of the 1,524 Americans ever recorded as Marline. The median Marline alive today is 59 years old; half are between 39 and 74.
The 2020 Census counted 1,635 people named Marline (1,619 women and girls, 16 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,138 born in the U.S. The Census count is 44% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 153 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 323 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 198 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 187 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 129 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 19 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 151,371 babies since 1880, Marline is the fourth most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 303 babies recorded by SSA was a Marline (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Marline
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 Marline and names like it
- Compare Marline and MarleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sMarline peaked in 1935.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marline since 1910.
- The top names of 1935The year the most babies were named Marline.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Marline alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.