Marylee
Marylee was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,607 among girls’ names; 3,385 Americans have been recorded with it since 1900 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,820 Americans named Marylee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (54% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 40 and 78.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marylee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marylee?
#10,607 among girls’ names, 2025
Marylee fell from #8,763 in 2015 to #10,607 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.3 to 5.6 per million.
89 babies in 1941, the peak
Marylee peaked in 1941, when 89 girls were given it, #766 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,607 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,973 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,551 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,853 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,021 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,002 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,519 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,005 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,604 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,585 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (121)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,763 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,788 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,630 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,902 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,520 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,766 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,529 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,535 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,627 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,370 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,590 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,552 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,990 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,129 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,852 | 8.9 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,091 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,027 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,529 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,293 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,149 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,934 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,893 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,899 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,109 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,018 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,456 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,980 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,411 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,719 | 13.4 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,222 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,414 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,897 | 12.0 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,412 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,157 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,887 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,000 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,419 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,739 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,803 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,257 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,964 | 10.9 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,740 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 15 | #4,020 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,451 | 11.4 |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,079 | 12.6 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,275 | 10.7 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,714 | 8.5 |
| 1967 | 19 | #2,933 | 11.5 |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,288 | 16.5 |
| 1965 | 32 | #2,096 | 18.1 |
| 1964 | 41 | #1,851 | 21.6 |
| 1963 | 49 | #1,639 | 25.4 |
| 1962 | 36 | #1,931 | 18.3 |
| 1961 | 40 | #1,823 | 19.8 |
| 1960 | 56 | #1,475 | 27.7 |
| 1959 | 43 | #1,684 | 21.3 |
| 1958 | 40 | #1,717 | 19.9 |
| 1957 | 50 | #1,522 | 24.5 |
| 1956 | 29 | #2,033 | 14.4 |
| 1955 | 29 | #2,006 | 14.8 |
| 1954 | 35 | #1,755 | 18.0 |
| 1953 | 35 | #1,693 | 18.6 |
| 1952 | 49 | #1,393 | 26.4 |
| 1951 | 42 | #1,458 | 23.3 |
| 1950 | 60 | #1,197 | 35.0 |
| 1949 | 81 | #1,001 | 47.3 |
| 1948 | 57 | #1,205 | 33.6 |
| 1947 | 65 | #1,114 | 36.7 |
| 1946 | 88 | #889 | 56.0 |
| 1945 | 71 | #898 | 54.3 |
| 1944 | 86 | #824 | 64.8 |
| 1943 | 80 | #877 | 57.3 |
| 1942 | 78 | #882 | 57.7 |
| 1941 | 89 | #766 | 73.7 |
| 1940 | 64 | #900 | 56.0 |
| 1939 | 46 | #1,060 | 41.9 |
| 1938 | 54 | #968 | 48.9 |
| 1937 | 52 | #975 | 48.9 |
| 1936 | 45 | #1,047 | 43.3 |
| 1935 | 48 | #1,002 | 45.8 |
| 1934 | 50 | #980 | 47.9 |
| 1933 | 31 | #1,302 | 30.8 |
| 1932 | 36 | #1,206 | 33.7 |
| 1931 | 46 | #1,036 | 43.2 |
| 1930 | 34 | #1,309 | 30.2 |
| 1929 | 35 | #1,272 | 31.3 |
| 1928 | 38 | #1,247 | 32.9 |
| 1927 | 40 | #1,249 | 33.5 |
| 1926 | 41 | #1,212 | 34.6 |
| 1925 | 56 | #1,005 | 46.0 |
| 1924 | 47 | #1,147 | 37.6 |
| 1923 | 47 | #1,124 | 39.0 |
| 1922 | 46 | #1,140 | 38.3 |
| 1921 | 45 | #1,145 | 36.5 |
| 1920 | 36 | #1,301 | 30.0 |
| 1919 | 35 | #1,310 | 31.0 |
| 1918 | 39 | #1,209 | 33.7 |
| 1917 | 47 | #1,034 | 43.5 |
| 1916 | 28 | #1,394 | 26.8 |
| 1915 | 29 | #1,331 | 29.5 |
| 1914 | 26 | #1,218 | 34.1 |
| 1913 | 20 | #1,296 | 32.0 |
| 1912 | 16 | #1,396 | 28.7 |
| 1911 | 14 | #1,273 | 33.5 |
| 1910 | 13 | #1,311 | 32.8 |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,438 | 28.8 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,980 | 18.8 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,870 | 20.3 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,970 | 19.1 |
| 1902 | 12 | #1,057 | 45.4 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,116 | 16.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marylee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marylee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 121 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marylee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marylee, and how old are they?
1,820 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 54% of the 3,385 Americans ever recorded as Marylee. The median Marylee alive today is 65 years old; half are between 40 and 78.
The 2020 Census counted 4,320 people named Marylee (4,310 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,054 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times 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 | 341 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 700 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 239 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 244 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 172 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 122 |
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).
Where are babies named Marylee born?
The states with the most babies named Marylee are New York, Pennsylvania and California, with 60% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 169 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 127 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 106 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 56 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 45 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Minnesota | 38 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 23 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 17 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Louisiana | 14 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Marylee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 86,621 babies since 1880, Marylee is the sixth most given (3.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 1,861 babies (<1%), again the sixth most given.
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 Marylee
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 Marylee and names like it
- Compare Marylee and MarleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sMarylee peaked in 1941.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marylee since 1910.
- The top names of 1941The year the most babies were named Marylee.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Marylee alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.