Marylee
#10,607 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Marylee has been given to 3,385 babies in the U.S. since 1900. In 2025 it ranked #10,607 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1941, with 89 recorded.
Babies named Marylee, 2025
1 in 368,000
Marylee 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Marylee?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 179,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #10,607
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Marylee sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marylee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Marylees were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Marylee was born before 1946 — so the typical Marylee is around 79 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 22.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 7.8%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,442
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 22.4% of all recorded uses (759).
Is Marylee 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
- +2,366
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,395
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,844
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.69×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 10.1%
- Peak was 1941 (89)
- Years since peak
- 84
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 41.4% average annual change
Spellings of Marylee
Marylee is not the most common spelling — Kaylee is, with 23.2% against Marylee's 0.56%.
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 Marylee is used
Across 1910–2025, Marylee was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 158,031 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Michigan1 in 100,000
- 3Minnesota1 in 100,000
- 4New Jersey1 in 100,000
- 5New York1 in 100,000
- 6Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
- 7Arkansas1 in —
- 8Georgia1 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. Marylee has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Marylee around the world
Where Marylee 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.
- France1988–2007#5,108in 2007
- Canada1992–2017#3,407in 2017
- South Australia1950–2003#739in 2003
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.
Marylee by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Marylee
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Marylee
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Marylee, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Marylee
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.