Marley
Marley is ranked 287th among girls in 2024 (1,100 births). Its best rank was 145th, in 2008.
- Rank in 2024
- #287down 2 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,1000.07% of girls
- Peak year
- 20082,359 births
- Best rank
- #145in 2008
- Since 1937
- 37,307people given the name
The story in the numbers
32,082 girls have been named Marley in the United States since 1937, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2008, with 2,359 births — 0.12% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 203 → 287).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2013, and the 2010s alone account for 44%. It has spent 31 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 5,225 boys have also been given it, 14% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Marley | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 12 | |
| 1940s | 18 | |
| 1950s | 38 | |
| 1960s | 41 | |
| 1970s | 124 | |
| 1980s | 497 | |
| 1990s | 2,035 | |
| 2000s | 8,992 | |
| 2010s | 14,232 | |
| 2020s | 6,093 |
In 2008, its biggest year
Marley was the 145th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2008 were Emma, Isabella, Emily, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2008.
Names that rose and fell with Marley
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kamiyapeak 2008
- Sienapeak 2018
- Sahanapeak 2011
- Alypeak 2016
- Miapeak 2015
- Aerispeak 2014
- Marliepeak 2009
- Aleenapeak 2015
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.