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Marely

#3,877 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Marely has been given to 2,879 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #3,877 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 1,005 recorded.

Babies named Marely, 2025

1 in 87,200

Marely over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marely: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marely means

Marely is a given name.

The naming story behind Marely

Wikidata records Marely as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q133884179, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,879 girls were recorded with the name Marely between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,005 in 2008; its best national rank was #334 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,117 in 2020 to #3,877 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,114 in 2015 to #3,877 in 2025.

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 Marely?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 87,200
38 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 42,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,877
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
60,472 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marely 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 2025 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 60,472 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marely. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marelys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marely was born before 2008 — so the typical Marely is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
63.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,879
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 63.9% of all recorded uses (1,839).

Is Marely 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
−615
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,240
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−763
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.70×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.8%
Peak was 2008 (1,005)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
122.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#334
2008

Marely’s breakout year

Among the small set of names that had a single, unmistakable year — a surge well above the years on either side of it.

In 2008, 1,005 girls were named Marely — about #334 that year — roughly 5.8× as many as in the surrounding years. What the data can’t say is why; the story behind the year is one you’ll likely recognise. Other one-hit wonders

Spellings of Marely

Marely is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 80.3% against Marely's 0.06%.

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 Marely is used

Across 1910–2025, Marely was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 63,005 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 16,667
  2. 2Texas1 in 20,000
  3. 3California1 in 25,000
  4. 4New Mexico1 in 25,000
  5. 5Nevada1 in 25,000
  6. 6Colorado1 in 50,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 50,000
  8. 8Kansas1 in 50,000

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. Marely has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marely by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,877
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,240
Best rank ever
#334
2008
Peak year
2008
1,005 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,879
Count in 2025
38

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

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Names with a curve like Marely

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Marely, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Marely

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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