Marlow — #2472 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Marlow

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,133 babies named Marlow between 1910 and 2024, spanning 115 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Marlow currently holds the #2472 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 58 babies received it in a single year. Marlow is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,704 additional births since 1963.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marlow performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 345 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Marlow shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 64 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Minnesota and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Marlow in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marlow 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 2,133 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.