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Marlise

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Marlise has been given to 364 babies in the U.S. since 1944. 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 1962, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Marlise, 2020

1 in 668,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marlise: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marlise means

Marlise is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Marlise is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 364 girls were recorded with the name Marlise between 1944 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1962; its best national rank was #3,243 in 1962.

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 Marlise?

Marlise had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 668,000
5 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 323,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,344 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marlise 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 2020 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 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marlise. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marlises were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marlise was born before 1972 — so the typical Marlise is around 53 today.

Median birth year
1972
About 53 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
24.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
349
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 24.7% of all recorded uses (90).

Is Marlise 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1962 (16)
Years since peak
63
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,243
1962

Spellings of Marlise

Marlise is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 53.9% against Marlise's 0.04%.

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 Marlise is used

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

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

Marlise around the world

Where Marlise 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.

  • France
    1922–1999
    #3,283
    in 1999
  • Canada
    1991–1991
    #2,397
    in 1991
  • South Australia
    1968–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Marlise 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
—
Best rank ever
#3,243
1962
Peak year
1962
16 that year
First recorded
1944
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
364
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Marlise

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

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Sibling names for Marlise

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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