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Marlie

Marlie reached its high-water mark in 2009 at number 894, and has been recorded 4,542 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,417th. About 4,500 Marlies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 13.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Marlie

By the numbers

Total US births
4,542
Estimated living today
4,500
Median age today
13
Peak year
2009
Best rank
894th
Rank in 2025
1,417th
First recorded
1937

How old the living Marlies are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 4,542 babies given the name since 1937, about 4,500 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 3,300 of them are children and 12 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Marlie is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Marlie is most concentrated in Utah (3.3×), Louisiana (2.8×), Georgia (2.6×), Florida (2.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2009

The most popular girls’ names the year Marlie peaked:

All the names of 2009

Marlie elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Marlie 915 575th
France girls Marlie 110 2,340th
England and Wales boys Marlie 99 2,199th
Scotland girls Marlie 85 284th
Ireland girls Marlie 28 443rd
Switzerland girls Marlie 17 1,103rd
Belgium girls Marlie 11 1,228th
Northern Ireland girls Marlie 7 231st

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Marlie: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Marlie 16 0.001% 988th
French girls Switzerland Marlie 1 0.000% 762nd

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

Marlie: rank by region

In 2021, Marlie was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Marlie 881 5

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Marlie by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin girls 2017–2023 6 551st

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Related names

Marlie against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.