Marlowe — #624 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Marlowe

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,228 babies named Marlowe between 1918 and 2024, spanning 107 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marlowe currently holds the #624 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 476 babies received it in a single year. Marlowe is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,626 additional births since 1912.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marlowe performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,872 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Marlowe shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 620 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Marlowe in 38 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marlowe 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 4,228 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.