Marlee
The girl's name Marlee has been in the national records since 1915, with 17,923 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 536th. About 18,000 Marlees are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 13.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Marlee boys named Marlee
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 17,923
- Estimated living today
- 18,000
- Median age today
- 13
- Peak year
- 2008
- Best rank
- 367th
- Rank in 2025
- 536th
- First recorded
- 1915
- Girls / boys
- 17,654 / 269
How old the living Marlees are
born that year still alive today
Of the 17,923 babies given the name since 1915, about 18,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 12,000 of them are children and 290 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 the name comes from
Origin a surname
Variant of Marley.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Marlees
- Marlee Matlin (born 1965)American actress
People named Marlee with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Marlee is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Marlee is most concentrated in Utah (2.9×), Tennessee (2.1×), Arizona (2.0×), Georgia (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2008
The most popular girls’ names the year Marlee peaked:
Marlee elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Marlee | 374 | 1,161st |
| England and Wales boys | Marlee | 121 | 2,270th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Marlee | 4 | 353rd |
| Ireland girls | Marlee | 3 | 834th |
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.
Related names
Marlee 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.