Marylin
Marylin was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,255 among girls’ names; 4,379 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,720 Americans named Marylin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (62% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 30 and 78.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marylin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Marylin?
#9,255 among girls’ names, 2025
Marylin fell from #5,240 in 2015 to #9,255 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.6 to 6.8 per million.
122 babies in 1943, the peak
Marylin peaked in 1943, when 122 girls were given it, #687 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,255 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,796 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,824 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,511 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,798 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,320 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,252 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,994 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,722 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,552 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (107)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,240 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,406 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,055 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,352 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,481 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,056 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,644 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,515 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,833 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,326 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,231 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,448 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,375 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,579 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,778 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,488 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,672 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,323 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,195 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 27 | #4,012 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,633 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,462 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,839 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,464 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,924 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,798 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,199 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,254 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,599 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,419 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,908 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,103 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,075 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,413 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,867 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,429 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,507 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,590 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,560 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,479 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,061 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,617 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,803 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 31 | #2,381 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 32 | #2,408 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 35 | #2,256 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,624 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 33 | #2,113 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 19 | #2,934 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,497 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 30 | #2,189 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 42 | #1,825 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 40 | #1,853 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 38 | #1,876 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 44 | #1,734 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 39 | #1,826 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 42 | #1,709 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 47 | #1,567 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 51 | #1,500 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 59 | #1,356 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 70 | #1,203 | 0.04 |
| 1954 | 82 | #1,089 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 71 | #1,148 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 59 | #1,244 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 63 | #1,180 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 77 | #1,049 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 74 | #1,045 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 85 | #943 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 107 | #849 | 0.06 |
| 1946 | 92 | #865 | 0.06 |
| 1945 | 76 | #867 | 0.06 |
| 1944 | 99 | #769 | 0.07 |
| 1943 | 122 | #687 | 0.09 |
| 1942 | 85 | #829 | 0.06 |
| 1941 | 108 | #677 | 0.09 |
| 1940 | 96 | #713 | 0.08 |
| 1939 | 115 | #639 | 0.10 |
| 1938 | 100 | #690 | 0.09 |
| 1937 | 118 | #625 | 0.11 |
| 1936 | 117 | #607 | 0.11 |
| 1935 | 80 | #760 | 0.08 |
| 1934 | 96 | #685 | 0.09 |
| 1933 | 98 | #664 | 0.10 |
| 1932 | 108 | #644 | 0.10 |
| 1931 | 78 | #760 | 0.07 |
| 1930 | 71 | #851 | 0.06 |
| 1929 | 42 | #1,146 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 44 | #1,157 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 43 | #1,185 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,574 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 35 | #1,363 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 22 | #1,908 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 26 | #1,658 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 20 | #2,001 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,086 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,754 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,735 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marylin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marylin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 107 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marylin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marylin, and how old are they?
2,720 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 62% of the 4,379 Americans ever recorded as Marylin. The median Marylin alive today is 63 years old; half are between 30 and 78.
The 2020 Census counted 4,053 people named Marylin (4,041 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,077 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 524 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 889 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 329 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 297 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 447 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 230 |
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 Marylin born?
The states with the most babies named Marylin are California, New York and Texas, with 57% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 419 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 378 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 168 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 132 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 131 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 97 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 75 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 71 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Iowa | 49 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Kansas | 28 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Marylin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marylin is most over-represented in California: since 1918 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Marylin with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Marylin?
Marylin is a less common spelling of Marilyn: SSA has recorded 4,379 Marylin and 374,857 Marilyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 402,998 babies since 1880, Marylin is the fourth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 460 babies (2.4%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Marylin
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 Marylin and names like it
- Compare Marylin and MarilynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sMarylin peaked in 1943.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marylin since 1910.
- The top names of 1943The year the most babies were named Marylin.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Marylin alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.