Marlei
#4,236 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Marlei has been given to 795 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #4,236 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 70 recorded.
Babies named Marlei, 2025
1 in 97,500
Marlei 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Marlei?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 97,500
- 34 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 47,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,236
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 67,586 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Marlei 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 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marlei. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Marleis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Marlei was born before 2018 — so the typical Marlei is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 53.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 784
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 53.1% of all recorded uses (416).
Is Marlei 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
- +861
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,747
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,187
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.61×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 48.6%
- Peak was 2020 (70)
- Years since peak
- 5
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.0% average annual change
Spellings of Marlei
Marlei is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 47.6% against Marlei'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 Marlei is used
Across 2016–2025, Marlei was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 2,778 girls, against 1 in 28,937 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).
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.
Marlei around the world
Where Marlei 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 Australia2012–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Marlei by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Marlei
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Marlei
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.