Marnette
Marnette was last recorded in 1974, when 5 babies were given it; 176 Americans have been recorded with it between 1922 and 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marnette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marnette?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,646, in 1974; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1938, the peak
Marnette peaked in 1938, when 12 girls were given it, #2,526 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 5 | #9,646 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,859 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,378 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,633 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,134 | 3.6 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,457 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,226 | 3.0 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,421 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,640 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,311 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 5 | #6,969 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,832 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,143 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,400 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,297 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,873 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,314 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,213 | 3.3 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,084 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,751 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,051 | 3.5 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,791 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,024 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,511 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,342 | 6.7 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,526 | 10.9 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,733 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,003 | 4.4 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,504 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marnette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marnette has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marnette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marnette, and how old are they?
An estimated 121 Americans named Marnette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (69% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 59 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 185 people named Marnette (184 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 136 born in the U.S. The Census count is 36% 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.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 439 babies since 1880, Marnette is the most given (40% of them).
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marnette | 176 | under 5 | 1938 |
| Marionette | 103 | under 5 | 1964 |
| Marinette | 101 | 10 | 2021 |
| Marnetta | 59 | under 5 | 1962 |
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 Marnette
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 Marnette and names like it
- Compare Marnette and MarionetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sMarnette peaked in 1938.
- The top names of 1938The year the most babies were named Marnette.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Marnette alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.