Marilouise
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Marilouise has been given to 268 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1924, with 32 recorded.
Babies named Marilouise, 1957
1 in 700,000
Marilouise 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Marilouise?
Marilouise had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1957, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1957
- 1 in 700,000
- 6 of 4,201,368 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 341,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1957
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 485,362 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Marilouise sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1957 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 485,362 children born in 1957 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marilouise. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Marilouises were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Marilouise was born before 1926 — so the typical Marilouise is around 99 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 53.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 32.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 35
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 53.0% of all recorded uses (142).
Is Marilouise 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1924 (32)
- Years since peak
- 101
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.3% average annual change
Spellings of Marilouise
Marilouise is not the most common spelling — Marylouise is, with 87.8% against Marilouise's 12.2%.
- Marylouise87.8%1,926
- Marilouise12.2%268
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 Marilouise is used
Across 1910–2025, Marilouise was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,843,292 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Illinois1 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. Marilouise has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Marilouise by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Marilouise
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Marilouise
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.