How Many People Are Named Marilynn?

7,571

people named Marilynn are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 45,143 people in the US has this name

Based on 13,282 babies named Marilynn in Social Security records from 1914 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,911

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,628

See the top 100

Peak Year

1947

407 births

Trend

→

Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: MER-ə-lin, MER-lin, MAR-ə-lin, MAR-lin
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of MARILYN.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Marilynn in English. Counting Marilynn and these spellings together, about 211,816 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Marilynn in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Marilynn alive today is about 62 years old, and 70% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 50 and 79 in 2025.

Under 30 1,231
16.3%
30 to 59 1,026
13.6%
60 and over 5,314
70.2%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Marilynn first appears in the records in 1914 and was given most often in 1947, to 407 babies. In 2025, 41 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1914 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Marilynn has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #348, in 1944. In 2025 it ranked #3,684.

Girls
Rank in 2025#3,684
Best rank#348 (1944)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#400 in the 1940s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Marilynn alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Marilynn were born in California than in any other state: about 911 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Marilynn was given 2.6 times as often in Michigan, 2.3 times in California and 2.3 times in Illinois.

California 911
Michigan 475
Illinois 452
New York 435
Texas 434
Ohio 236
Pennsylvania 212
Wisconsin 152
Minnesota 140
Missouri 123
Washington 116
Indiana 110
New Jersey 102
Florida 86
Iowa 81
North Carolina 75
Mississippi 75
Kansas 64
Colorado 63
Georgia 60
Massachusetts 56
Oklahoma 54
Kentucky 53
Tennessee 51
Louisiana 50
Alabama 48
Nebraska 46
Utah 34
Virginia 34
South Carolina 31
Montana 26
Connecticut 26
Arkansas 24
Oregon 20
North Dakota 14
Maryland 10
Idaho 9
South Dakota 7
Arizona 5
Hawaii 4
West Virginia 4

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