Girls' name · since 1933
Marvalee
29 babies named Marvalee in U.S. Social Security records since 1933, with the highest year being 1939. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 29
- total births
- 1933–1952
- years on record
- 1930s
- peak decade
- 62%
- born in that decade
Marvalee sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 29 recorded since 1933.
Marvalee has 29 recorded births among girls since 1933, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1930s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1933 to 1952.
- 29 total births
- 1933–1952 years on record
- 1930s peak decade
- 62% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Marvalee's 29 recorded births place it above 43% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Marvalee's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Marvalee splits its recorded history at 1939: 62% of all births land in the more recent half, 38% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 1933 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1939 peak of 7 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Marvalee popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1933–1952
- Peak year (1939)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 20 years of records
Marvalee by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1930s was Marvalee's strongest decade.
18 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 62% of all-time use.
Marvalee births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1930s
1930s
18 births
- 1940s 6
1940s
6 births
- 1950s 5
1950s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1930s at 18 births (62% of all-time use).
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1933–1952 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Marvalee: Baby Name Since 1933 - 29 Births, Peak 1939." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/marvalee. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Marvalee draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.