Marleah
#11,549 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Marleah has been given to 439 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #11,549 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 16 recorded.
Babies named Marleah, 2025
1 in 414,000
Marleah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Marleah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 201,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #11,549
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Marleah 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marleah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Marleahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Marleah was born before 2002 — so the typical Marleah is around 23 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 21.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 52.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 375
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 21.6% of all recorded uses (95).
Is Marleah 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
- −2,783
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,944
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −936
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.80×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 50.0%
- Peak was 2009 (16)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 50.2% average annual change
Spellings of Marleah
Marleah is not the most common spelling — Marlene is, with 29.5% against Marleah's 0.10%.
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.
Marleah around the world
Where Marleah 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 Australia2011–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Marleah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Marleah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Marleah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.