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Marylyn

#12,712 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Marilyn

Marylyn has been given to 3,336 babies in the U.S. since 1910. In 2025 it ranked #12,712 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1936, with 238 recorded.

Babies named Marylyn, 2025

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marylyn: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Marilyn

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marylyn means

Marylyn is a variant of Marilyn.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Marylyn is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈmæɹ.ə.lɪn/ for Marylyn.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Marilyn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,336 girls were recorded with the name Marylyn between 1910 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 238 in 1936; its best national rank was #418 in 1936.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,501 in 2020 to #12,712 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #12,591 in 2015 to #12,712 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Marylyn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,712
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marylyn 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marylyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marylyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marylyn was born before 1943 — so the typical Marylyn is around 82 today.

Median birth year
1943
About 82 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
30.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,160
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1930s — 30.6% of all recorded uses (1,021).

Is Marylyn 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,789
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−121
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.88×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.9%
Peak was 1936 (238)
Years since peak
89
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#418
1936

Spellings of Marylyn

Marylyn is not the most common spelling — Carolyn is, with 42.7% against Marylyn's 0.26%.

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 Marylyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Marylyn was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 90,742 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 50,000
  2. 2Ohio1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Iowa1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 100,000
  7. 7Kansas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 100,000

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

Marylyn around the world

Where Marylyn 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.

  • England & Wales
    2012–2012
    #5,876
    in 2012
  • France
    1955–1979
    #2,366
    in 1979
  • South Australia
    1945–1978
    #626
    in 1978

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Marylyn

People whose public names include Marylyn, 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.

Marylyn in other languages

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

MarilynMarylynn

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

Marylyn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,712
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,789
Best rank ever
#418
1936
Peak year
1936
238 that year
First recorded
1910
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,336
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Marylyn

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

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Names with a curve like Marylyn

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

MerleneBobbyeGearldineShelbaJeraldineBeverleeEarleanMarilouCarrolGerryBeverleyArmida

Sibling names for Marylyn

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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