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Marlane

Marlane reached its high-water mark in 1949 at number 1,236, and has been recorded 697 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2002. About 500 Marlanes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 73.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Marlane

By the numbers

Total US births
697
Estimated living today
500
Median age today
73
Peak year
1949
Best rank
1,236th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1932

How old the living Marlanes are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 697 babies given the name since 1932, about 500 are alive — 71 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1952 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 Marlane is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Marlane is most concentrated in Pennsylvania (13.7×), Ohio (3.0×).

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

Names of 1949

The most popular girls’ names the year Marlane peaked:

All the names of 1949

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Marlane against another name

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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.