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Marilee

#8,164 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Marilee has been given to 7,434 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #8,164 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1947, with 221 recorded.

Babies named Marilee, 2025

1 in 255,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marilee: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marilee means

Marilee is a given name.

The naming story behind Marilee

Wikidata records Marilee as a given name. The entity identifier is Q63245395, 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, 7,434 girls were recorded with the name Marilee between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 221 in 1947; its best national rank was #535 in 1942.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #16,656 in 2020 to #8,164 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,378 in 2015 to #8,164 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 Marilee?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,164
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marilee 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marilee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marilees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marilee was born before 1953 — so the typical Marilee is around 72 today.

Median birth year
1953
About 72 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
24.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,383
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Choose a decade

1950s — 24.5% of all recorded uses (1,818).

Is Marilee 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
+99
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+8,492
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,786
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.65×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.9%
Peak was 1947 (221)
Years since peak
78
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#535
1942

Spellings of Marilee

Marilee is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 41.7% against Marilee's 0.57%.

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 Marilee is used

Across 1910–2025, Marilee was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 29,232 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).

014 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 7,143
  2. 2Washington1 in 8,333
  3. 3Iowa1 in 11,111
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 12,500
  5. 5Oregon1 in 12,500
  6. 6Illinois1 in 16,667
  7. 7California1 in 20,000
  8. 8Indiana1 in 20,000

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

Marilee around the world

Where Marilee 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.

  • Canada
    1991–2007
    #3,117
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1955–1999
    #729
    in 1999

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Marilee by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,164
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 8,492
Best rank ever
#535
1942
Peak year
1947
221 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,434
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Marilee

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

MaryleeMarleeMaraleeMariannMarjoryMariyahMarcelaMargretMarlenaMarandaMarloweMarielaMarylinMarylouMarleenMargauxMargeryMarielMaryjoMarylynMarlynMartinaMarnieMarleigh

Names with a curve like Marilee

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

CharleenOraliaDarleenMariannJerrieSherrillMerryErlindaMickeyDeloisMarvaCarlene

Sibling names for Marilee

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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