Marlane
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Marlane has been given to 697 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 1949, with 54 recorded.
Babies named Marlane, 2002
1 in 747,000
Marlane 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Marlane?
Marlane had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2002
- 1 in 747,000
- 5 of 3,737,275 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 359,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2002
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 518,097 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Marlane sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2002 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 518,097 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marlane. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Marlanes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Marlane was born before 1951 — so the typical Marlane is around 74 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 35.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 4.0%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 396
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 35.7% of all recorded uses (249).
Is Marlane 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1949 (54)
- Years since peak
- 76
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.8% average annual change
Spellings of Marlane
Marlane is not the most common spelling — Darlene is, with 19.5% against Marlane's 0.07%.
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 Marlane is used
Across 1910–2025, Marlane was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 242,972 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3New Jersey1 in —
- 4Ohio1 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. Marlane has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Marlane around the world
Where Marlane 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 Australia1960–1960#617in 1960
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Marlane by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Marlane
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Marlane
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.