Marlis
Marlis reached its high-water mark in 1941 at number 1,335, and has been recorded 846 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2001. About 460 Marlises are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 73.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Marlis
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 846
- Estimated living today
- 460
- Median age today
- 73
- Peak year
- 1941
- Best rank
- 1,335th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1919
How old the living Marlises are
born that year still alive today
Of the 846 babies given the name since 1919, about 460 are alive — 55 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 Marlis is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Marlis is most concentrated in Minnesota (40.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1941
The most popular girls’ names the year Marlis peaked:
Marlis 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Marlis | — | 9 |
A count of people on a register – 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.
Related names
Marlis 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.