Marolyn
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Marolyn has been given to 1,381 babies in the U.S. since 1919. 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 1946, with 62 recorded.
Babies named Marolyn, 1969
1 in 386,000
Marolyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Marolyn?
Marolyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1969, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1969
- 1 in 386,000
- 9 of 3,475,126 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 187,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1969
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 267,643 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Marolyn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1969 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 267,643 children born in 1969 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marolyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Marolyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Marolyn was born before 1944 — so the typical Marolyn is around 81 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 35.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 47.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 391
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 35.2% of all recorded uses (486).
Is Marolyn 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 1946 (62)
- Years since peak
- 79
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.4% average annual change
Spellings of Marolyn
Marolyn is not the most common spelling — Carolyn is, with 46.1% against Marolyn's 0.11%.
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 Marolyn is used
Across 1910–2025, Marolyn was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 383,570 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Marolyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Marolyn around the world
Where Marolyn 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 Australia1946–1953#449in 1953
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Marolyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Marolyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Marolyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.