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Marlie

#1,422 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Marlie has been given to 4,542 babies in the U.S. since 1937. In 2025 it ranked #1,422 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 306 recorded.

Babies named Marlie, 2025

1 in 21,700

Marlie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marlie: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marlie means

Marlie is a given name.

The naming story behind Marlie

Wikidata records Marlie as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q98827028, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,542 girls were recorded with the name Marlie between 1937 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 306 in 2009; its best national rank was #895 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,395 in 2020 to #1,422 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,208 in 2015 to #1,422 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.

How common is Marlie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 21,700
153 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 10,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,422
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,020 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marlie 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 15,020 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marlie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marlies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marlie was born before 2012 — so the typical Marlie is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,531
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Choose a decade

2010s — 40.0% of all recorded uses (1,819).

Is Marlie 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
+160
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−27
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−214
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.74×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2009 (306)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#895
2009

Spellings of Marlie

Marlie is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 17.6% against Marlie's 0.14%.

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 Marlie is used

Across 2016–2025, Marlie was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 3,448 girls, against 1 in 13,115 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

129 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 3,448
  2. 2Georgia1 in 5,556
  3. 3Missouri1 in 7,692
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 7,692
  5. 5Alabama1 in 8,333
  6. 6Florida1 in 8,333
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 8,333
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 9,091

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.

Marlie around the world

Where Marlie 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
    1997–2025
    #622
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2008–2025
    #284
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2025–2025
    #231
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2014–2025
    #443
    in 2025
  • France
    1996–2025
    #4,670
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,968
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1947–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Marlie

People whose public names include Marlie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Marlie in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Marlie. Linked forms have their own page here.

MarliMarlyMarleeMarley

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Marlie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,422
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 27
Best rank ever
#895
2009
Peak year
2009
306 that year
First recorded
1937
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,542
Count in 2025
153

Names similar to Marlie

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

MaritaMarvelMarlenMarnieMarlynMaryjoMarelyMarielMariyaMariluMaryahMarylinMartiMarloweMarleenMartyMargauxMarlowMarlinMarniMarkieMaryleeMarinMaryan

Names with a curve like Marlie

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

AilynJazzlynSofieMalakLeilahMaiteKaleahAmiahKamiyaNariahDalilahAmariah

Sibling names for Marlie

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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