Marilynne
About 968 American babies have been named Marilynne since 1921, most of them around 1946. It has not appeared in the national data since 2013. About 470 Marilynnes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 78.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Marilynne
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 968
- Estimated living today
- 470
- Median age today
- 78
- Peak year
- 1946
- Best rank
- 1,131st
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1921
How old the living Marilynnes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 968 babies given the name since 1921, about 470 are alive — 48 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1947 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 Marilynnes
- Marilynne Robinson (born 1943)American novelist and essayist
People named Marilynne with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Marilynne is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Marilynne is most concentrated in Illinois (6.4×), New York (3.5×), California (3.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1946
The most popular girls’ names the year Marilynne peaked:
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Marilynne 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.