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Marylynn

#7,022 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Marylynn has been given to 2,176 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #7,022 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1960, with 65 recorded.

Babies named Marylynn, 2025

1 in 207,000

Marylynn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marylynn: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marylynn means

Marylynn is a given name.

The naming story behind Marylynn

Wikidata records Marylynn as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q115202091, 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, 2,176 girls were recorded with the name Marylynn between 1920 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 65 in 1960; its best national rank was #1,298 in 1943.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,321 in 2020 to #7,022 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,527 in 2015 to #7,022 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 Marylynn?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,022
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marylynn 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marylynn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marylynns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marylynn was born before 1964 — so the typical Marylynn is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
19.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,698
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 19.9% of all recorded uses (433).

Is Marylynn 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
+2,319
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,299
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,505
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.78×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
24.6%
Peak was 1960 (65)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,298
1943

Spellings of Marylynn

Marylynn is not the most common spelling — Marilyn is, with 66.9% against Marylynn's 0.39%.

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 Marylynn is used

Across 1910–2025, Marylynn was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 173,215 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 100,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 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. Marylynn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Marylynn around the world

Where Marylynn 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.

  • Canada
    1996–1996
    #2,248
    in 1996
  • South Australia
    1944–1944
    #345
    in 1944

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Marylynn in other languages

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

MarylynMarilynnMarylynneMary Lynn

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

Marylynn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,022
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,299
Best rank ever
#1,298
1943
Peak year
1960
65 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,176
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Marylynn

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

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Names with a curve like Marylynn

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

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Sibling names for Marylynn

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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