Marlon
About 31,292 American babies have been named Marlon since 1914, most of them around 1972. In 2025 it ranked 1,097th. About 28,000 Marlons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 37.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Marlon boys named Marlon
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 31,292
- Estimated living today
- 28,000
- Median age today
- 37
- Peak year
- 1972
- Best rank
- 217th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,097th
- First recorded
- 1914
- Girls / boys
- 336 / 30,956
How old the living Marlons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 31,292 babies given the name since 1914, about 28,000 are alive — 90 in every hundred. Roughly 5,200 of them are children and 2,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1988 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.
Notable Marlons
- Marlon Brando (1924–2004)American actor
- Marlon Wayans (born 1972)American actor, screenwriter, and film producer
- Marlon Jackson (born 1957)American singer and member of The Jackson 5
- Marlon Harewood (born 1979)British footballer
- Marlon James (born 1970)Jamaican novelist
- Marlon (born 1995)Brazilian footballer (born September 1995)
- Marlon Devonish (born 1976)English sprint athlete
- Marlon Ayoví (born 1971)Ecuadorian footballer
People named Marlon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Marlon is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Marlon is most concentrated in Louisiana (2.9×), the District of Columbia (2.2×), Florida (2.2×), Alabama (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1972
The most popular boys’ names the year Marlon peaked:
Marlon elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Marlon | 4,600 | 190th |
| Switzerland boys | Marlon | 1,632 | 90th |
| England and Wales boys | Marlon | 635 | 455th |
| Belgium boys | Marlon | 339 | 548th |
| Norway boys | Marlon | 64 | 194th |
| Ireland boys | Marlon | 4 | 423rd |
| Poland boys | Marlon | 4 birth registrations | 732nd |
| Scotland boys | Marlon | 3 | 686th |
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.
Marlon: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Marlon | 1,423 | 0.114% | 72nd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Marlon | 200 | 0.046% | 101st |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Marlon | 8 | 0.012% | 177th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Marlon | 1 | 0.027% | 19th |
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.
By canton, Marlon is most concentrated in Basel-Landschaft, where 0.17% of children were given it – 90 of them.
Marlon: rank by region
In 2025, Marlon was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Marlon | 356 | 7 |
In 2024, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Marlon appears in the lists for Province of Liège (131st).
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.
Marlon by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 236 | 93rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Marlon among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Marlon | 1,182 | 1,770 |
| the Netherlands girls | Marlon | 822 | 1,009 |
| Finland boys | Marlon | 105 | 158 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Marlon lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 744 men called Marlon were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Marlon | 45 | 0.077 | 1,106 |
| Balears, Illes | Marlon | 46 | 0.074 | 899 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Marlon | 39 | 0.073 | 1,164 |
| Madrid | Marlon | 158 | 0.046 | 1,170 |
| Araba/Álava | Marlon | 7 | 0.042 | 1,324 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Marlon | 38 | 0.038 | 1,658 |
Listed in 25 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 27 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Marlon against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.