Marylyn — girls' name

What the Data Says About Marylyn

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,336 babies named Marylyn between 1910 and 2025, spanning 116 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Marylyn currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2025. The name reached its historical peak in 1936, when 238 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Marylyn performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 1,021 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Marylyn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 243 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Marylyn in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Marylyn 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 3,336 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.