Marlowe
About 6,467 American babies have been named Marlowe since 1912, most of them around 2025. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 523rd. About 5,800 Marlowes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 7.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Marlowe boys named Marlowe
Girls and boys called Marlowe
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Marlowe crossed from boys to girls in 2002, and has stayed there for 22 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 95% girls, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 34 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,467
- Estimated living today
- 5,800
- Median age today
- 7
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 523rd
- Rank in 2025
- 523rd
- First recorded
- 1912
- Girls / boys
- 4,805 / 1,662
How old the living Marlowes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,467 babies given the name since 1912, about 5,800 are alive — 89 in every hundred. Roughly 4,700 of them are children and 250 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2018 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 Marlowe is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Marlowe is most concentrated in Colorado (3.0×), Minnesota (2.6×), Washington (2.2×), California (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular girls’ names the year Marlowe peaked:
Marlowe elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Marlowe | 580 | 555th |
| England and Wales boys | Marlowe | 290 | 1,042nd |
| Scotland girls | Marlowe | 40 | 324th |
| Ireland girls | Marlowe | 20 | 727th |
| Switzerland girls | Marlowe | 10 | 1,539th |
| France boys | Marlowe | 10 | 6,287th |
| France girls | Marlowe | 5 | 5,201st |
| Northern Ireland girls | Marlowe | 3 | 397th |
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.
Marlowe: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Marlowe | 3 | 0.000% | 1,389th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Marlowe | 7 | 0.002% | 689th |
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.
Related names
Marlowe 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.