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Marylin

#9,255 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Marylin has been given to 4,379 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #9,255 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1943, with 122 recorded.

Babies named Marylin, 2025

1 in 301,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marylin: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marylin means

Marylin is a given name.

The naming story behind Marylin

Wikidata records Marylin as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q61978251, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,379 girls were recorded with the name Marylin between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 122 in 1943; its best national rank was #607 in 1936.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,320 in 2020 to #9,255 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,240 in 2015 to #9,255 in 2025.

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.

How common is Marylin?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,255
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marylin 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 2025 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marylin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marylins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marylin was born before 1949 — so the typical Marylin is around 76 today.

Median birth year
1949
About 76 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
22.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,169
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Choose a decade

1930s — 22.4% of all recorded uses (981).

Is Marylin 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
+1,541
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+65
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,015
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.42×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.0%
Peak was 1943 (122)
Years since peak
82
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#607
1936

Spellings of Marylin

Marylin is not the most common spelling — Marilyn is, with 64.0% against Marylin's 0.75%.

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 Marylin is used

Across 1910–2025, Marylin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 62,522 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2New York1 in 33,333
  3. 3Iowa1 in 50,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 50,000
  5. 5Indiana1 in 50,000
  6. 6Kansas1 in 50,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 50,000
  8. 8Missouri1 in 50,000

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

Marylin around the world

Where Marylin 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
    1953–2006
    #4,670
    in 2006
  • Canada
    1993–1993
    #2,426
    in 1993
  • South Australia
    1946–1971
    #724
    in 1971

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.

Notable people named Marylin

People whose public names include Marylin, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Marylin in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Marylin. Linked forms have their own page here.

Marilyn

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Marylin by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,255
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 65
Best rank ever
#607
1936
Peak year
1943
122 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,379
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Marylin

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

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Names with a curve like Marylin

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Marylin, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MarilouCaroleeCarrolCarrollMerilynGerryJeraldineMerleneGeorgenePeggieBeverleeJoye

Sibling names for Marylin

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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