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Marleigh

#976 in 2025Girls' name

Boundary, through Marley

Marleigh has been given to 6,111 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #976 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 419 recorded.

Babies named Marleigh, 2025

1 in 12,700

Marleigh over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marleigh: meaning, origin, and history

Boundary, through Marley

surname transfer

What Marleigh means

Marleigh belongs to the name family reached through Marleigh → Marley. Its meaning is “boundary”.

Origin, language, and formation

Marleigh is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Marleigh is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marley.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,111 girls were recorded with the name Marleigh between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 419 in 2021; its best national rank was #690 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #724 in 2020 to #976 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #902 in 2015 to #976 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Marleigh?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,700
261 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 6,160
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#976
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,805 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marleigh sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,805 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marleigh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marleighs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marleigh was born before 2016 — so the typical Marleigh is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
43.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,111
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Choose a decade

2010s — 43.4% of all recorded uses (2,651).

Is Marleigh 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
−63
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−252
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−74
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.85×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
62.3%
Peak was 2021 (419)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#690
2021

Spellings of Marleigh

Marleigh is not the most common spelling — Kayleigh is, with 21.5% against Marleigh's 3.8%.

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 Marleigh is used

Across 2016–2025, Marleigh was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 1,031 girls, against 1 in 4,524 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in 50,000).

297 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 1,031
  2. 2Alabama1 in 1,075
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 1,099
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 1,515
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 1,786
  6. 6Georgia1 in 2,128
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 2,273
  8. 8Kentucky1 in 2,326

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.

Geographically, Marleigh is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 93% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Marleigh around the world

Where Marleigh 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.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2025
    #2,605
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2019–2025
    #632
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2024–2024
    #736
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1987–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Marleigh by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#976
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 252
Best rank ever
#690
2021
Peak year
2021
419 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,111
Count in 2025
261

Names similar to Marleigh

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Marleigh

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Marleigh, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Marleigh

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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