Marylyn
Marylyn is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 418th, in 1936.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1936238 births
- Best rank
- #418in 1936
- Since 1910
- 3,329people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,329 girls have been named Marylyn in the United States since 1910, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1936, with 238 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 238 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1943, and the 1930s alone account for 31%. It has spent 18 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Marylyn | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 36 | |
| 1920s | 329 | |
| 1930s | 1,021 | |
| 1940s | 790 | |
| 1950s | 389 | |
| 1960s | 196 | |
| 1970s | 154 | |
| 1980s | 101 | |
| 1990s | 147 | |
| 2000s | 91 | |
| 2010s | 55 | |
| 2020s | 20 |
In 1936, its biggest year
Marylyn was the 418th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1936 were Mary, Shirley, Barbara, Betty and Patricia. See all of 1936.
Names that rose and fell with Marylyn
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Shirleypeak 1935
- Marlyspeak 1937
- Merlenepeak 1940
- Maralynpeak 1938
- Marylinpeak 1943
- Patsypeak 1941
- Myrnapeak 1938
- Marlenepeak 1936
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.