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Maralyn

Girls' name

Variant of Marilyn

Maralyn has been given to 1,319 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1938, with 64 recorded.

Babies named Maralyn, 2023

1 in 663,000

Maralyn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maralyn: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Marilyn

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maralyn means

Maralyn is a variant of Marilyn.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Maralyn is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈmæɹ.ə.lɪn/ for Maralyn.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marilyn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,319 girls were recorded with the name Maralyn between 1917 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 64 in 1938; its best national rank was #882 in 1938.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Maralyn?

Maralyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maralyn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maralyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maralyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maralyn was born before 1940 — so the typical Maralyn is around 85 today.

Median birth year
1940
About 85 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
31.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
328
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1930s — 31.5% of all recorded uses (416).

Is Maralyn 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1938 (64)
Years since peak
87
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
55.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#882
1938

Spellings of Maralyn

Maralyn is not the most common spelling — Carolyn is, with 44.0% against Maralyn's 0.10%.

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.

Where Maralyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Maralyn was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 431,881 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Indiana1 in —
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in —
  6. 6Michigan1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Maralyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maralyn around the world

Where Maralyn ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1944–1958
    #598
    in 1958

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Maralyn by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#882
1938
Peak year
1938
64 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
1,319
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Maralyn

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MarelynMarylynMarolynMarlynMarcelynMarillynMarielyMarlenyMarlinaMarysolMariskaMarlynnMarnitaMarillaMariamaMarvelynMarleniMartineMarikoMarlanaMarenaMaryamaMaryanaMarlaina

Sibling names for Maralyn

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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