Maralou
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Maralou has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1932. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1932, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Maralou, 1932
1 in 422,000
Maralou over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Maralou?
Maralou had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1932, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1932
- 1 in 422,000
- 5 of 2,111,250 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1932
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 292,683 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Maralou sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1932 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 292,683 children born in 1932 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maralou. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Maralous were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Maralou was born before 1932 — so the typical Maralou is around 93 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Maralou rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1932 (5)
- Years since peak
- 93
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Maralou
Maralou is not the most common spelling — Marylou is, with 42.4% against Maralou's 0.02%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Maralou by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Maralou
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Maralou
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.