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Marlies

Girls' name

Combination of Maria and Lies

Marlies has been given to 175 babies in the U.S. since 1940. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1963, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Marlies, 1999

1 in 615,000

Marlies over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marlies: meaning, origin, and history

Combination of Maria and Lies

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marlies means

Marlies is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Marlies is used in German and Dutch.

Another recorded pronunciation is /mɑr.ˈlis/ for Marlies.

The naming story behind Marlies

The reference identifies Marlies as a combination of Maria and Lies. This is a documented two-name formation.

The histories of Maria and Lies belong to their separate source entries. The source does not identify every bearer’s family motivation.

Origin, language, and formation

Marlies is used in German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maria and Lies.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Marlies is pronounced /ˈmaʁˌliːs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 175 girls were recorded with the name Marlies between 1940 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1963; its best national rank was #3,948 in 1963.

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 Marlies?

Marlies had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1999
1 in 615,000
6 of 3,692,373 births
Among girls only
1 in 296,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1999
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
426,561 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marlies 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 1999 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 426,561 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marlies. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marliess were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marlies was born before 1965 — so the typical Marlies is around 60 today.

Median birth year
1965
About 60 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
40.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
170
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 40.0% of all recorded uses (70).

Is Marlies 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1963 (12)
Years since peak
62
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,948
1963

Spellings of Marlies

Marlies is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 66.5% against Marlies's 0.02%.

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 Marlies is used

Across 1910–2025, Marlies was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Marlies has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marlies around the world

Where Marlies 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 Australia
    1950–1999
    #729
    in 1999

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Marlies by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,948
1963
Peak year
1963
12 that year
First recorded
1940
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
175
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Marlies

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

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Sibling names for Marlies

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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