How Many People Are Named Marlee?

17,564

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

About 1 in 19,459 people in the US has this name

Based on 17,923 babies named Marlee in Social Security records from 1915 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,746

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#941

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Peak Year

2008

900 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English (Modern)
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of MARLEY.

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

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⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
98.5%
Male
1.5%

Of the babies given the name Marlee, 98.5% were girls and 1.5% were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Marlee alive today is about 16 years old, and 87% are under 30. Half of them were between 6 and 20 in 2025.

Under 30 15,295
87.1%
30 to 59 1,921
10.9%
60 and over 348
2%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Marlee first appears in the records in 1915 and was given most often in 2008, to 900 babies. In 2025, 577 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1915 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Marlee has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #367, in 2008. In 2025 it ranked #536.

Girls
Rank in 2025#536
Best rank#367 (2008)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#487 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

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

More people named Marlee were born in Texas than in any other state: about 1,276 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Marlee was given 3.3 times as often in Mississippi, 2.6 times in Alabama and 2.4 times in Louisiana.

Texas 1,276
California 1,071
Georgia 854
Florida 807
Ohio 704
Pennsylvania 675
Tennessee 662
Alabama 525
North Carolina 503
Louisiana 496
New York 494
Michigan 493
Indiana 446
Illinois 437
Kentucky 381
Arizona 380
Mississippi 380
Utah 356
Missouri 348
Virginia 311
South Carolina 291
Oklahoma 289
Wisconsin 263
Washington 259
New Jersey 254
Arkansas 245
Colorado 232
Maryland 227
Minnesota 206
Iowa 164
Kansas 157
Oregon 152
West Virginia 142
Idaho 120
Massachusetts 86
Nevada 75
Nebraska 63
South Dakota 42
Connecticut 37
New Hampshire 17
Montana 16
Delaware 16
North Dakota 11
Wyoming 11
Maine 10

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