Marlys
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Marlys has been given to 8,963 babies in the U.S. since 1910. 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 1937, with 369 recorded.
Babies named Marlys, 2022
1 in 677,000
Marlys 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Marlys?
Marlys had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 677,000
- 5 of 3,385,755 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 328,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 469,366 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Marlys sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marlys. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Marlyss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Marlys was born before 1940 — so the typical Marlys is around 85 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 35.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 0.80%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,130
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 35.4% of all recorded uses (3,172).
Is Marlys 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 1937 (369)
- Years since peak
- 88
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.5% average annual change
Spellings of Marlys
Marlys is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 86.0% against Marlys's 0.19%.
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 Marlys is used
Across 1910–2025, Marlys was most concentrated in North Dakota — about 1 in 508 girls, against 1 in 7,849 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1North Dakota1 in 508
- 2South Dakota1 in 704
- 3Minnesota1 in 926
- 4Iowa1 in 1,471
- 5Wisconsin1 in 6,667
- 6Nebraska1 in 12,500
- 7Washington1 in 25,000
- 8Montana1 in 33,333
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. Marlys has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Marlys around the world
Where Marlys 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.
- France2007–2007#6,530in 2007
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Marlys by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Marlys
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Marlys
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Marlys, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Marlys
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.