Marlayna
#9,868 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Marlayna has been given to 888 babies in the U.S. since 1957. In 2025 it ranked #9,868 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 36 recorded.
Babies named Marlayna, 2025
1 in 332,000
Marlayna 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Marlayna?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 332,000
- 10 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 161,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #9,868
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 229,791 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Marlayna sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marlayna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Marlaynas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Marlayna was born before 1998 — so the typical Marlayna is around 27 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 28.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 42.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 888
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 28.5% of all recorded uses (253).
Is Marlayna 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +946
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,800
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.37×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 27.8%
- Peak was 1992 (36)
- Years since peak
- 33
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.7% average annual change
Spellings of Marlayna
Marlayna is not the most common spelling — Mariana is, with 31.4% against Marlayna's 0.61%.
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 Marlayna is used
Across 1910–2025, Marlayna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,381,795 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Ohio1 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. Marlayna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Marlayna around the world
Where Marlayna 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.
- Canada2009–2009#3,263in 2009
- South Australia2011–2011#840in 2011
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.
Marlayna by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Marlayna
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Marlayna
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.