Marlyn
Marlyn is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 19 births. Its best rank was 464th, in 1936.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 190.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1936193 births
- Best rank
- #464in 1936
- Since 1915
- 9,090people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,784 girls have been named Marlyn in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1936, with 193 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1953, and the 1930s alone account for 22%. It has spent 24 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Marlyn is used for both sexes: 25% of its bearers are boys (2,306), most of them born around 1935.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Marlyn | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 56 | |
| 1920s | 516 | |
| 1930s | 1,492 | |
| 1940s | 1,064 | |
| 1950s | 682 | |
| 1960s | 448 | |
| 1970s | 290 | |
| 1980s | 408 | |
| 1990s | 619 | |
| 2000s | 632 | |
| 2010s | 462 | |
| 2020s | 115 |
In 1936, its biggest year
Marlyn was the 464th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1936 were Mary, Shirley, Barbara, Betty and Patricia. See all of 1936.
Names that rose and fell with Marlyn
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Marylinpeak 1943
- Johannepeak 1939
- Marylynpeak 1936
- Marlinepeak 1935
- Merilynpeak 1946
- Joanepeak 1935
- Marlyspeak 1937
- Maralynpeak 1938
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.